diff --git a/types/react-native-uuid/index.d.ts b/types/react-native-uuid/index.d.ts
index 4b65a801dd..78d98b6d7e 100644
--- a/types/react-native-uuid/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-native-uuid/index.d.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ interface v4 {
     rng?: (...args: any) => void;
 }
 
-export interface uuid {
+interface uuid {
     v1: (options?: v1, buffer?: ArrayBuffer, offset?: number) => string;
     v4: (options?: v4, buffer?: ArrayBuffer, offset?: number) => string;
     parse: (id: string, buffer?: ArrayBuffer, offset?: number) => ArrayBuffer;
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ export interface uuid {
 }
 
 declare const uuid: uuid;
-export default uuid;
+export = uuid;
diff --git a/types/react-native-uuid/tsconfig.json b/types/react-native-uuid/tsconfig.json
index 7494c6152e..61edf9448d 100644
--- a/types/react-native-uuid/tsconfig.json
+++ b/types/react-native-uuid/tsconfig.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
         "lib": [
             "es6"
         ],
+        "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
         "noImplicitAny": true,
         "noImplicitThis": true,
         "strictNullChecks": true,