diff --git a/packages/app/package.json b/packages/app/package.json
index eae56d0c5..8afade044 100644
--- a/packages/app/package.json
+++ b/packages/app/package.json
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
     "@callstack/react-native-visionos": "0.76 - 0.79",
     "@expo/config-plugins": ">=5.0",
     "react": "18.2 - 19.2",
-    "react-native": "0.76 - 0.86 || >=0.86.0-0 <0.87.0",
+    "react-native": "0.76 - 0.87 || >=0.88.0-0 <0.88.0",
     "react-native-macos": "^0.0.0-0 || 0.76 - 0.81",
     "react-native-windows": "^0.0.0-0 || 0.76 - 0.83"
   },
diff --git a/packages/app/scripts/internal/set-react-version.mts b/packages/app/scripts/internal/set-react-version.mts
index d4a12384c..51d790573 100644
--- a/packages/app/scripts/internal/set-react-version.mts
+++ b/packages/app/scripts/internal/set-react-version.mts
@@ -85,17 +85,23 @@ function fetchPackageInfo(pkg: string, version: string): Promise<Manifest> {
 /**
  * Fetches the template manifest for the specified React Native version.
  */
-function fetchTemplateManifest(version: string): Promise<Manifest> {
+async function fetchTemplateManifest(version: string): Promise<Manifest> {
   const url = `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/react-native-community/template/refs/heads/${version}-stable/template/package.json`;
   console.log(`Fetching template manifest from ${url}`);
-  return fetch(url, {
+  const res = await fetch(url, {
     headers: {
       Accept:
         "application/vnd.npm.install-v1+json; q=1.0, application/json; q=0.8, */*",
     },
-  })
-    .then((res) => res.text())
-    .then((text) => JSON.parse(text));
+  });
+
+  const body = await res.text();
+  if (res.status !== 200) {
+    console.error(`Failed to fetch template: ${body}`);
+    return { name: "", version: "" };
+  }
+
+  return JSON.parse(body);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 07135d44a..06bf42214 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -13355,7 +13355,7 @@ __metadata:
     "@callstack/react-native-visionos": 0.76 - 0.79
     "@expo/config-plugins": ">=5.0"
     react: 18.2 - 19.2
-    react-native: 0.76 - 0.86 || >=0.86.0-0 <0.87.0
+    react-native: 0.76 - 0.87 || >=0.88.0-0 <0.88.0
     react-native-macos: ^0.0.0-0 || 0.76 - 0.81
     react-native-windows: ^0.0.0-0 || 0.76 - 0.83
   peerDependenciesMeta: