diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTJSRuntimeConfiguratorProtocol.h b/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTJSRuntimeConfiguratorProtocol.h
index 16d22dca4e7..ca7f1a089d6 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTJSRuntimeConfiguratorProtocol.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTJSRuntimeConfiguratorProtocol.h
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
-#import <react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactoryCAPI.h>
-
 #pragma once
 
 NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
 
+// Forward declarations for umbrella headers.
+// In implementations, import `<react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactoryCAPI.h>` to obtain the actual type.
+typedef void *JSRuntimeFactoryRef;
+
 @protocol RCTJSRuntimeConfiguratorProtocol
 
 - (JSRuntimeFactoryRef)createJSRuntimeFactory;
diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTRootViewFactory.mm b/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTRootViewFactory.mm
index 1ed25b29ba4..17a3ca3d620 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTRootViewFactory.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/AppDelegate/RCTRootViewFactory.mm
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #import <react/renderer/runtimescheduler/RuntimeScheduler.h>
 #import <react/renderer/runtimescheduler/RuntimeSchedulerCallInvoker.h>
 #import <react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactory.h>
+#import <react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactoryCAPI.h>
 
 @implementation RCTRootViewFactoryConfiguration
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/React-jsitooling.podspec b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/React-jsitooling.podspec
index ce29c9a8345..0b5bbdf3365 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/React-jsitooling.podspec
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/React-jsitooling.podspec
@@ -48,8 +48,11 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
     s.header_mappings_dir  = "./"
   end
 
-  s.pod_target_xcconfig    = { "HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS" => header_search_paths.join(" "),
-                               "CLANG_CXX_LANGUAGE_STANDARD" => rct_cxx_language_standard() }
+  s.pod_target_xcconfig    = {
+    "HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS" => header_search_paths.join(" "),
+    "CLANG_CXX_LANGUAGE_STANDARD" => rct_cxx_language_standard(),
+    "DEFINES_MODULE" => "YES",
+  }
 
   s.dependency "React-cxxreact", version
   s.dependency "React-jsi", version
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactory.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactory.h
index c60a46ab9bc..422dc9b871f 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactory.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/jsitooling/react/runtime/JSRuntimeFactory.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+
 #include <ReactCommon/RuntimeExecutor.h>
 #include <cxxreact/MessageQueueThread.h>
 #include <jsi/jsi.h>
@@ -72,3 +74,5 @@ class JSIRuntimeHolder : public JSRuntime {
 };
 
 } // namespace facebook::react
+
+#endif // __cplusplus