diff --git a/types/react-native/index.d.ts b/types/react-native/index.d.ts
index a94c3a14d0..f23682f901 100644
--- a/types/react-native/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-native/index.d.ts
@@ -2942,7 +2942,17 @@ export interface DatePickerIOSProps extends ViewProps {
     /**
      * The currently selected date.
      */
-    date: Date;
+    date?: Date | null;
+
+    /**
+     * Provides an initial value that will change when the user starts selecting
+     * a date. It is useful for simple use-cases where you do not want to deal
+     * with listening to events and updating the date prop to keep the
+     * controlled state in sync. The controlled state has known bugs which
+     * causes it to go out of sync with native. The initialDate prop is intended
+     * to allow you to have native be source of truth.
+     */
+    initialDate?: Date | null;
 
     /**
      * The date picker locale.