diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2aa544781a..7df0c071ea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Fixes
+
+- Avoid silent failure when JS bundle was not created due to Sentry Xcode scripts failure ([#4690](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/4690))
+
 ### Dependencies
 
 - Bump Bundler Plugins from v3.2.2 to v3.3.1 ([#4693](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/4693), [#4707](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/4707), [#4720](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/4720), [#4721](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/4721))
diff --git a/packages/core/scripts/sentry-xcode.sh b/packages/core/scripts/sentry-xcode.sh
index eab8510e77..65c80fdfb7 100755
--- a/packages/core/scripts/sentry-xcode.sh
+++ b/packages/core/scripts/sentry-xcode.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ ARGS="$NO_AUTO_RELEASE $SENTRY_CLI_EXTRA_ARGS $SENTRY_CLI_RN_XCODE_EXTRA_ARGS"
 
 REACT_NATIVE_XCODE_WITH_SENTRY="\"$SENTRY_CLI_EXECUTABLE\" react-native xcode $ARGS \"$REACT_NATIVE_XCODE\""
 
+exitCode=0
+
 if [ "$SENTRY_DISABLE_AUTO_UPLOAD" != true ]; then
   # 'warning:' triggers a warning in Xcode, 'error:' triggers an error
   set +x +e # disable printing commands otherwise we might print `error:` by accident and allow continuing on error
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ if [ "$SENTRY_DISABLE_AUTO_UPLOAD" != true ]; then
   else
     echo "error: sentry-cli - To disable source maps auto upload, set SENTRY_DISABLE_AUTO_UPLOAD=true in your environment variables. Or to allow failing upload, set SENTRY_ALLOW_FAILURE=true"
     echo "error: sentry-cli - $SENTRY_XCODE_COMMAND_OUTPUT"
+    exitCode=1
   fi
   set -x -e # re-enable
 else
@@ -48,3 +51,5 @@ fi
 if [ -f "$SENTRY_COLLECT_MODULES" ]; then
   /bin/sh "$SENTRY_COLLECT_MODULES"
 fi
+
+exit $exitCode