diff --git a/samples/react-native/ios/sentryreactnativesample/AppDelegate.mm b/samples/react-native/ios/sentryreactnativesample/AppDelegate.mm
index fa061be54c..08e8f79765 100644
--- a/samples/react-native/ios/sentryreactnativesample/AppDelegate.mm
+++ b/samples/react-native/ios/sentryreactnativesample/AppDelegate.mm
@@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ - (BOOL)concurrentRootEnabled
     return nullptr;
 }
 
-- (BOOL) shouldStartSentry {
-  NSArray<NSString*>* arguments = [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] arguments];
-  return ![arguments containsObject:@"--sentry-disable-native-start"];
+- (BOOL)shouldStartSentry
+{
+    NSArray<NSString *> *arguments = [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] arguments];
+    return ![arguments containsObject:@"--sentry-disable-native-start"];
 }
 
 @end
diff --git a/samples/react-native/sentry.options.json b/samples/react-native/sentry.options.json
index f6465b7923..53ae525bc0 100644
--- a/samples/react-native/sentry.options.json
+++ b/samples/react-native/sentry.options.json
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
   "attachScreenshot": true,
   "attachViewHierarchy": true,
   "enableCaptureFailedRequests": true,
-  "_release": "myapp@1.2.3+1",
-  "_dist": 1,
   "profilesSampleRate": 1.0,
   "replaysSessionSampleRate": 1.0,
   "replaysOnErrorSampleRate": 1.0,
diff --git a/samples/react-native/src/App.tsx b/samples/react-native/src/App.tsx
index d84f1b9470..02b4fd2827 100644
--- a/samples/react-native/src/App.tsx
+++ b/samples/react-native/src/App.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import Animated, {
 // Import the Sentry React Native SDK
 import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react-native';
 
-import { SENTRY_INTERNAL_DSN } from './dsn';
 import ErrorsScreen from './Screens/ErrorsScreen';
 import PerformanceScreen from './Screens/PerformanceScreen';
 import TrackerScreen from './Screens/TrackerScreen';
@@ -55,10 +54,6 @@ const reactNavigationIntegration = Sentry.reactNavigationIntegration({
 });
 
 Sentry.init({
-  // Replace the example DSN below with your own DSN:
-  dsn: SENTRY_INTERNAL_DSN,
-  debug: true,
-  environment: 'dev',
   beforeSend: (event: ErrorEvent) => {
     logWithoutTracing('Event beforeSend:', event.event_id);
     return event;
@@ -74,7 +69,6 @@ Sentry.init({
       didCallNativeInit,
     );
   },
-  enableUserInteractionTracing: true,
   integrations(integrations) {
     integrations.push(
       reactNavigationIntegration,
@@ -110,30 +104,7 @@ Sentry.init({
     );
     return integrations.filter(i => i.name !== 'Dedupe');
   },
-  enableAutoSessionTracking: true,
-  // For testing, session close when 5 seconds (instead of the default 30) in the background.
-  sessionTrackingIntervalMillis: 30000,
-  // This will capture ALL TRACES and likely use up all your quota
-  enableTracing: true,
-  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
   tracePropagationTargets: ['localhost', /^\//, /^https:\/\//, /^http:\/\//],
-  attachStacktrace: true,
-  // Attach screenshots to events.
-  attachScreenshot: true,
-  // Attach view hierarchy to events.
-  attachViewHierarchy: true,
-  // Enables capture failed requests in JS and native.
-  enableCaptureFailedRequests: true,
-  // Sets the `release` and `dist` on Sentry events. Make sure this matches EXACTLY with the values on your sourcemaps
-  // otherwise they will not work.
-  // release: 'myapp@1.2.3+1',
-  // dist: `1`,
-  profilesSampleRate: 1.0,
-  replaysSessionSampleRate: 1.0,
-  replaysOnErrorSampleRate: 1.0,
-  spotlight: true,
-  // This should be disabled when manually initializing the native SDK
-  // Note that options from JS are not passed to the native SDKs when initialized manually
   // autoInitializeNativeSdk: true,
 });
 
diff --git a/samples/react-native/src/dsn.ts b/samples/react-native/src/dsn.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 345276a627..0000000000
--- a/samples/react-native/src/dsn.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react-native';
-
-export const SENTRY_INTERNAL_DSN =
-  'https://1df17bd4e543fdb31351dee1768bb679@o447951.ingest.sentry.io/5428561';
-
-export const getCurrentDsn = () => {
-  return Sentry.getCurrentHub().getClient()?.getOptions().dsn;
-};