diff --git a/packages/realm-app-importer/src/AdminApiClient.ts b/packages/realm-app-importer/src/AdminApiClient.ts
index 6280347f2c..cebf3f23dc 100644
--- a/packages/realm-app-importer/src/AdminApiClient.ts
+++ b/packages/realm-app-importer/src/AdminApiClient.ts
@@ -386,7 +386,6 @@ export class AdminApiClient {
         // Setting additional options to signal to the RN fetch polyfill that it shouldn't consider the response a "blob"
         // see https://github.com/react-native-community/fetch/issues/15
         reactNative: { textStreaming: true },
-        timeoutMs: 5000,
       } as FetchRequestInit);
       if (response.ok) {
         if (response.headers.get("content-type") === "application/json") {