diff --git a/Telegram/WatchApp/project.yml b/Telegram/WatchApp/project.yml
index ebc0099a2f..44a381228f 100644
--- a/Telegram/WatchApp/project.yml
+++ b/Telegram/WatchApp/project.yml
@@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ targets:
         CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED: "NO"
         CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED: "NO"
         CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY: ""
+      configs:
+        Release:
+          # Bazel consumes a plain `xcodebuild build`, so DEPLOYMENT_POSTPROCESSING
+          # stays NO and the default strip phase never runs — the executable ships
+          # with its full ~1M-symbol table, doubling each thinned slice to ~100MB
+          # and tripping App Store's 75MB watchOS limit (error 90389). Force the
+          # strip during build. Scoped to this target only: a project-wide setting
+          # also tries to strip the SPM static libs, which errors on COgg.o.
+          DEPLOYMENT_POSTPROCESSING: "YES"
+          STRIP_INSTALLED_PRODUCT: "YES"
+          STRIP_STYLE: "all"
     dependencies:
       - package: TDLibKit
       - package: QRCodeGenerator
diff --git a/Telegram/WatchApp/tgwatch.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/Telegram/WatchApp/tgwatch.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index dd7e37625c..ab950ef6f3 100644
--- a/Telegram/WatchApp/tgwatch.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+++ b/Telegram/WatchApp/tgwatch.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@
 				CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED = NO;
 				CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED = NO;
 				CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = "";
+				DEPLOYMENT_POSTPROCESSING = YES;
 				DEVELOPMENT_TEAM = C67CF9S4VU;
 				GENERATE_INFOPLIST_FILE = NO;
 				INFOPLIST_FILE = "tgwatch Watch App/Info.plist";
@@ -648,6 +649,8 @@
 				PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = ph.telegra.Telegraph.watchkitapp;
 				SDKROOT = watchos;
 				SKIP_INSTALL = YES;
+				STRIP_INSTALLED_PRODUCT = YES;
+				STRIP_STYLE = all;
 				TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY = 4;
 				WATCHOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 26.0;
 			};