diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/cxxcomponents/ComponentManager.h b/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/cxxcomponents/ComponentManager.h
index de76dbd4af3..0c870fa5f61 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/cxxcomponents/ComponentManager.h
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/cxxcomponents/ComponentManager.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class ComponentManager {
       Tag tag,
       Props::Shared initialProps) = 0;
 
-  virtual std::unique_ptr<Component> createComponent(Tag tag) = 0;
+  virtual std::shared_ptr<Component> createComponent(Tag tag) = 0;
 
   virtual ~ComponentManager() = default;
 };