diff --git a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/BUCK b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/BUCK
index 5ae7c276420..cfba993e953 100644
--- a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/BUCK
+++ b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/BUCK
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ rn_xplat_cxx_library(
     deps = [
         "//xplat/folly:headers_only",
         YOGA_CXX_TARGET,
+        react_native_xplat_target("react/debug:debug"),
         react_native_xplat_target("react/utils:utils"),
         react_native_xplat_target("react/renderer/attributedstring:attributedstring"),
         react_native_xplat_target("react/renderer/core:core"),
diff --git a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/conversions.h b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/conversions.h
index b39f10431b7..c2577779cde 100644
--- a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/conversions.h
+++ b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/picker/iospicker/conversions.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
+#include <react/debug/react_native_assert.h>
 #include <react/renderer/components/iospicker/primitives.h>
 
 #include <vector>
@@ -17,26 +18,26 @@ namespace react {
 inline void fromRawValue(
     const RawValue &value,
     std::vector<PickerItemsStruct> &items) {
-  assert(value.hasType<std::vector<RawValue>>());
+  react_native_assert(value.hasType<std::vector<RawValue>>());
   auto array = (std::vector<RawValue>)value;
   items.reserve(array.size());
 
   for (auto const &val : array) {
     bool check = val.hasType<better::map<std::string, RawValue>>();
-    assert(check);
+    react_native_assert(check);
     auto map = (better::map<std::string, RawValue>)val;
     PickerItemsStruct item;
 
     if (map.find("label") != map.end()) {
-      assert(map.at("label").hasType<std::string>());
+      react_native_assert(map.at("label").hasType<std::string>());
       item.label = (std::string)map.at("label");
     }
     if (map.find("value") != map.end()) {
-      assert(map.at("value").hasType<std::string>());
+      react_native_assert(map.at("value").hasType<std::string>());
       item.value = (std::string)map.at("value");
     }
     if (map.find("textColor") != map.end()) {
-      assert(map.at("textColor").hasType<int>());
+      react_native_assert(map.at("textColor").hasType<int>());
       item.textColor = (int)map.at("textColor");
     }
     items.push_back(item);