diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/Image.ios.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/Image.ios.js
index b3b9e61e50b9..083bbf148012 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/Image.ios.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/Image.ios.js
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ function getSizeWithHeaders(
 
 function prefetchWithMetadata(
   url: string,
-  queryRootName: string,
+  queryRootName: ?string,
   rootTag?: ?RootTag,
 ): Promise<boolean> {
   if (NativeImageLoaderIOS.prefetchImageWithMetadata) {
diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/RCTImageLoader.mm b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/RCTImageLoader.mm
index 68a12d351227..014c22bfd4de 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/RCTImageLoader.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Image/RCTImageLoader.mm
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ - (void)cancelRequest:(id)requestToken
 
 RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(prefetchImageWithMetadata
                   : (NSString *)uri queryRootName
-                  : (NSString *)queryRootName rootTag
+                  : (nullable NSString *)queryRootName rootTag
                   : (double)rootTag resolve
                   : (RCTPromiseResolveBlock)resolve reject
                   : (RCTPromiseRejectBlock)reject)
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/specs/modules/NativeImageLoaderIOS.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/specs/modules/NativeImageLoaderIOS.js
index b3d73201313e..1c937799c760 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/src/private/specs/modules/NativeImageLoaderIOS.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/specs/modules/NativeImageLoaderIOS.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export interface Spec extends TurboModule {
   +prefetchImage: (uri: string) => Promise<boolean>;
   +prefetchImageWithMetadata?: (
     uri: string,
-    queryRootName: string,
+    queryRootName: ?string,
     rootTag: RootTag,
   ) => Promise<boolean>;
   +queryCache: (uris: Array<string>) => Promise<Object>;