diff --git a/types/react-native/index.d.ts b/types/react-native/index.d.ts
index 6e54b6d7c9..ae1aa35f00 100644
--- a/types/react-native/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-native/index.d.ts
@@ -9037,8 +9037,11 @@ export const PixelRatio: PixelRatioStatic;
  *
  *   const View = requireNativeComponent('RCTView');
  *
+ * The concrete return type of `requireNativeComponent` is a string, but the declared type is
+ * `any` because TypeScript assumes anonymous JSX intrinsics (`string` instead of `"div", for
+ * example) not to have any props.
  */
-export function requireNativeComponent(viewName: string): React.ReactType;
+export function requireNativeComponent(viewName: string): any;
 
 export function findNodeHandle(
     componentOrHandle: null | number | React.Component<any, any> | React.ComponentClass<any>