diff --git a/packages/webgpu/Package.swift b/packages/webgpu/Package.swift
index 1793b97bb..54780446f 100644
--- a/packages/webgpu/Package.swift
+++ b/packages/webgpu/Package.swift
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ if let skiaPath = nodePackage("react-native-skia"),
 // cpp/rnwgpu), so every directory that's the target of one of those bare
 // includes has to be listed explicitly here. The "webgpu/..." and "dawn/..."
 // includes resolve through the Dawn xcframework's embedded headers.
+// Keep in sync with header_dirs in react-native-webgpu.podspec.
 let internalHeaderDirs = [
   "apple",
   "cpp",
diff --git a/packages/webgpu/react-native-webgpu.podspec b/packages/webgpu/react-native-webgpu.podspec
index 49d84612f..09beace03 100644
--- a/packages/webgpu/react-native-webgpu.podspec
+++ b/packages/webgpu/react-native-webgpu.podspec
@@ -95,8 +95,14 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
     s.frameworks = "AVFoundation", "CoreMedia", "CoreVideo", "ImageIO"
   end
 
+  # Under use_frameworks!, bare includes across folders (e.g. "GPU.h")
+  # resolve only through these paths. Keep in sync with internalHeaderDirs
+  # in Package.swift.
+  header_dirs = %w[apple cpp cpp/jsi cpp/rnwgpu cpp/rnwgpu/api cpp/rnwgpu/api/descriptors cpp/rnwgpu/async]
+  header_search_paths = header_dirs.map { |dir| "\"$(PODS_TARGET_SRCROOT)/#{dir}\"" }
+
   s.pod_target_xcconfig = {
-    'HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => "$(PODS_TARGET_SRCROOT)/cpp \"#{dawn_include}\"",
+    'HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => (header_search_paths + ["\"#{dawn_include}\""]).join(' '),
     # Xcode's all-target headermaps let same-named headers leak across pods
     # (e.g. @shopify/react-native-skia keeps a jsi/ helper layer with
     # identical relative header paths). Resolve includes strictly through our