diff --git a/packages/react-native-nitro-sqlite/RNNitroSQLite.podspec b/packages/react-native-nitro-sqlite/RNNitroSQLite.podspec
index 93065ff2..61906122 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-nitro-sqlite/RNNitroSQLite.podspec
+++ b/packages/react-native-nitro-sqlite/RNNitroSQLite.podspec
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ require "json"
 
 package = JSON.parse(File.read(File.join(__dir__, "package.json")))
 folly_compiler_flags = '-DFOLLY_NO_CONFIG -DFOLLY_MOBILE=1 -DFOLLY_USE_LIBCPP=1'
+log_message = lambda do |message|
+  puts "\e[34m#{message}\e[0m"
+end
 
 # TODO: Should be customizable in package.json.
 # Used to create comparable benchmark results
@@ -30,6 +33,16 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
     "cpp/**/*.{h,hpp,c,cpp}"
   ]
 
+  optimizedCflags = '$(inherited) -DSQLITE_DQS=0 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=1 -DSQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS=1 -DSQLITE_MAX_EXPR_DEPTH=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED=1 -DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK=1 -DSQLITE_OMIT_SHARED_CACHE=1 -DSQLITE_USE_ALLOCA=1'
+
+  if performance_mode == 1
+    log_message.call("Thread unsafe (1) performance mode enabled. Use only transactions! 🚀🚀")
+    other_cflags = optimizedCflags + ' -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=0 '
+  elsif performance_mode == 2
+    log_message.call("Thread safe (2) performance mode enabled 🚀")
+    other_cflags = optimizedCflags + ' -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1 '
+  end
+
   s.pod_target_xcconfig = {
     :GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS => "HAVE_FULLFSYNC=1",
     :WARNING_CFLAGS => "-Wno-shorten-64-to-32 -Wno-comma -Wno-unreachable-code -Wno-conditional-uninitialized -Wno-deprecated-declarations",
@@ -39,6 +52,7 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
     "HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS" => "\"${PODS_ROOT}/RCT-Folly\"" + (nitro_sqlite_vec ? " \"#{nitro_sqlite_vec_cpp}\"" : ""),
     "GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS" => "$(inherited) FOLLY_NO_CONFIG FOLLY_CFG_NO_COROUTINES" + (nitro_sqlite_vec ? " NITRO_SQLITE_VEC=1" : ""),
     "OTHER_CPLUSPLUSFLAGS" => folly_compiler_flags,
+    "OTHER_CFLAGS" => other_cflags,
   }
 
   load 'nitrogen/generated/ios/RNNitroSQLite+autolinking.rb'
@@ -46,18 +60,6 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
 
   install_modules_dependencies(s)
 
-  optimizedCflags = '$(inherited) -DSQLITE_DQS=0 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=1 -DSQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS=1 -DSQLITE_MAX_EXPR_DEPTH=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED=1 -DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK=1 -DSQLITE_OMIT_SHARED_CACHE=1 -DSQLITE_USE_ALLOCA=1'
-
-  if performance_mode == '1' then
-    log_message.call("Thread unsafe (1) performance mode enabled. Use only transactions! 🚀🚀")
-    xcconfig[:OTHER_CFLAGS] = optimizedCflags + ' -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=0 '
-  end
-
-  if performance_mode == '2' then
-    log_message.call("Thread safe (2) performance mode enabled 🚀")
-    xcconfig[:OTHER_CFLAGS] = optimizedCflags + ' -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1 '
-  end
-
   if ENV['NITRO_SQLITE_USE_PHONE_VERSION'] == '1' then
     s.exclude_files = "cpp/sqlite/sqlite3.c", "cpp/sqlite/sqlite3.h"
     s.library = "sqlite3"