diff --git a/tests/xharness/Jenkins/TestVariationsFactory.cs b/tests/xharness/Jenkins/TestVariationsFactory.cs
index 0ca386f7495b..e29c711ba722 100644
--- a/tests/xharness/Jenkins/TestVariationsFactory.cs
+++ b/tests/xharness/Jenkins/TestVariationsFactory.cs
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ IEnumerable<TestData> GetTestData (RunTestTask test)
 					yield return new TestData { Variation = "Release", MTouchExtraArgs = test.TestProject.MTouchExtraArgs, Debug = false, Profiling = false, MonoNativeLinkMode = MonoNativeLinkMode.Static };
 				if (test.Platform == TestPlatform.iOS_Unified32)
 					yield return new TestData { Variation = "Release: UseThumb", MTouchExtraArgs = test.TestProject.MTouchExtraArgs, Debug = false, Profiling = false, MonoNativeLinkMode = MonoNativeLinkMode.Static, UseThumb = true };
-				yield return new TestData { Variation = "AssemblyBuildTarget: SDK framework (release)", MTouchExtraArgs = $"--assembly-build-target=@sdk=framework=Xamarin.Sdk --assembly-build-target=@all=staticobject {test.TestProject.MTouchExtraArgs}", Debug = false, Profiling = false, MonoNativeLinkMode = MonoNativeLinkMode.Static };
+
+				// Disable this by default for tvOS/Release because the app ends up being too big (https://github.com/xamarin/maccore/issues/2282)
+				var sdk_release_skip = test.Platform == TestPlatform.tvOS && test.TestName == "dont link";
+				if (!sdk_release_skip)
+					yield return new TestData { Variation = "AssemblyBuildTarget: SDK framework (release)", MTouchExtraArgs = $"--assembly-build-target=@sdk=framework=Xamarin.Sdk --assembly-build-target=@all=staticobject {test.TestProject.MTouchExtraArgs}", Debug = false, Profiling = false, MonoNativeLinkMode = MonoNativeLinkMode.Static, };
 
 				switch (test.TestName) {
 				case "monotouch-test":