diff --git a/scripts/ios/release.sh b/scripts/ios/release.sh
index b94532dac..7b25e9325 100755
--- a/scripts/ios/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/ios/release.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ function last_tag() {
     local out=`git tag --sort=taggerdate | tail -1`
     echo $out
 }
-echo "🚢 🏷️ Last tag: $(last_tag)"
+echo "🚢 🏷️  Last tag: $(last_tag)"
 
 # one liner from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8653732
 NEXT_TAG=$(echo $(last_tag) | awk -F. -v OFS=. 'NF==1{print ++$NF}; NF>1{if(length($NF+1)>length($NF))$(NF-1)++; $NF=sprintf("%0*d", length($NF), ($NF+1)%(10^length($NF))); print}')
@@ -37,8 +37,16 @@ XCFRAME_ZIP_PATH=`echo "$OUTPUT_OF_BUILD" | cut -d ";" -f 2` || exit $?
 echo "🚢  CHECKSUM: $CHECKSUM"
 echo "🚢  XCFRAME_ZIP_PATH: $XCFRAME_ZIP_PATH"
 
+GIT_ADD_CMD="git add Package.swift apple/Sources/UniFFI/Sargon.swift"
+echo "🚢  Staging (potentially) changed files with: $GIT_ADD_CMD"
+eval $GIT_ADD_CMD
+
+GIT_COMMIT_CMD="git commit -m \"Release of '$NEXT_TAG' (updated Package.swift with new checksum and path to zip on Github, and maybe apple/Sources/UniFFI/Sargon.swift). This commit is not merged into main/develop branch (and need not be).\" --no-verify"
+echo "🚢  Git commiting changes to Package.swift (and maybe Sargon.swift)"
+eval $GIT_COMMIT_CMD
+
 `git tag $NEXT_TAG`
-echo "🚢 🏷️ 📡 Pushing tag: $(last_tag)"
+echo "🚢 🏷️ 📡 Pushing tag: $(NEXT_TAG), but only tag, not commit."
 `git push origin $NEXT_TAG`
 
 # This MUST match whatever you we have declared in `$PROJECT_ROOT/Package.swift`