diff --git a/.changeset/rn-android-ignore-javascript-exception.md b/.changeset/rn-android-ignore-javascript-exception.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5de78bd506
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/rn-android-ignore-javascript-exception.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@posthog/react-native-plugin': patch
+---
+
+Fix fatal JS errors being double-reported on Android in minified release builds: the plugin's dedup matched serialized class-name strings, which R8/ProGuard renaming can defeat. It now registers `JavascriptException` in posthog-android's `errorTrackingConfig.ignoredExceptionTypes` (requires core 6.24.0), which matches by class across the cause chain and is unaffected by minification.
diff --git a/packages/react-native-plugin/android/build.gradle b/packages/react-native-plugin/android/build.gradle
index ec582e7076..e71a2dcb24 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-plugin/android/build.gradle
+++ b/packages/react-native-plugin/android/build.gradle
@@ -85,6 +85,6 @@ dependencies {
   //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
   implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"
   implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"
-  implementation "com.posthog:posthog-android:3.52.0"
+  implementation "com.posthog:posthog-android:3.53.6"
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native-plugin/android/src/main/java/com/posthogreactnativeplugin/PosthogReactNativePluginModule.kt b/packages/react-native-plugin/android/src/main/java/com/posthogreactnativeplugin/PosthogReactNativePluginModule.kt
index fb9439db07..1010325458 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-plugin/android/src/main/java/com/posthogreactnativeplugin/PosthogReactNativePluginModule.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native-plugin/android/src/main/java/com/posthogreactnativeplugin/PosthogReactNativePluginModule.kt
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactContextBaseJavaModule
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactMethod
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReadableMap
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.UiThreadUtil
+import com.facebook.react.common.JavascriptException
 import com.posthog.PostHog
 import com.posthog.PostHogConfig
-import com.posthog.PostHogEvent
 import com.posthog.android.PostHogAndroid
 import com.posthog.android.PostHogAndroidConfig
 import com.posthog.internal.PostHogPreferences
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class PosthogReactNativePluginModule(
 
               // React Native rethrows fatal JS errors natively as JavascriptException.
               // The JS layer already captured them, so drop the native duplicate.
-              addBeforeSend { event -> if (isReactNativeFatalJsError(event)) null else event }
+              errorTrackingConfig.ignoredExceptionTypes.add(JavascriptException::class.java)
 
               // Always apply the session replay configuration so that recording started later
               // (e.g. startRecording or a linked feature flag) uses the right mode and masking;
@@ -320,16 +320,6 @@ class PosthogReactNativePluginModule(
     key: String,
   ): Double? = runCatching { if (hasKey(map, key)) map?.getDouble(key) else null }.getOrNull()
 
-  private fun isReactNativeFatalJsError(event: PostHogEvent): Boolean {
-    if (event.event != "\$exception") return false
-    val exceptionList = event.properties?.get("\$exception_list") as? List<*> ?: return false
-    return exceptionList.any { item ->
-      val exception = item as? Map<*, *> ?: return@any false
-      exception["type"] == "JavascriptException" &&
-        (exception["module"] as? String)?.startsWith("com.facebook.react") == true
-    }
-  }
-
   private fun logError(
     method: String,
     error: Throwable,