diff --git a/packages/react-native/sdks/hermes-engine/utils/build-hermes-xcode.sh b/packages/react-native/sdks/hermes-engine/utils/build-hermes-xcode.sh
index 0fa473e9c11..c8dc5217ae1 100755
--- a/packages/react-native/sdks/hermes-engine/utils/build-hermes-xcode.sh
+++ b/packages/react-native/sdks/hermes-engine/utils/build-hermes-xcode.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
-set -x
+set -x -e
 
 release_version="$1"; shift
 hermesc_path="$1"; shift