diff --git a/dotnet/targets/Xamarin.Shared.Sdk.targets b/dotnet/targets/Xamarin.Shared.Sdk.targets
index 490aaa9d0a..27696c8830 100644
--- a/dotnet/targets/Xamarin.Shared.Sdk.targets
+++ b/dotnet/targets/Xamarin.Shared.Sdk.targets
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
 			Properties="
 				RuntimeIdentifier=%(_RuntimeIdentifiersAsItems.Identity);
 				_CodesignItemsPath=%(_RuntimeIdentifiersAsItems.RidSpecificCodesignItemsPath);
-				_MtouchSymbolsList=%(_RuntimeIdentifiersAsItems.RidSpecificSymbolsList);
+				_MtouchSymbolsList=%(_RuntimeIdentifiersAsItems.RidSpecificSymbolsListPath);
 				_UserFrameworksWithoutDebugSymbolsPath=%(_RuntimeIdentifiersAsItems.RidSpecificUserFrameworksWithoutDebugSymbolsPath);
 				$(_RidSpecificProperties);
 				">
diff --git a/tests/common/Configuration.cs b/tests/common/Configuration.cs
index b9976407d9..ac4ee12f6d 100644
--- a/tests/common/Configuration.cs
+++ b/tests/common/Configuration.cs
@@ -1215,5 +1215,23 @@ namespace Xamarin.Tests {
 
 		[DllImport ("libc")]
 		static extern int sysctlbyname (string name, ref int value, ref IntPtr size, IntPtr zero, IntPtr zeroAgain);
+
+		public static IEnumerable<string> GetNativeSymbols (string file, string arch = null)
+		{
+			var arguments = new List<string> (new [] { "-gUjA", file });
+			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (arch)) {
+				arguments.Add ("-arch");
+				arguments.Add (arch);
+			}
+			var symbols = ExecutionHelper.Execute ("nm", arguments, hide_output: true).Split ('\n');
+			return symbols.Where ((v) => {
+				return !v.EndsWith (": no symbols", StringComparison.Ordinal);
+			}).Select ((v) => {
+				var idx = v.LastIndexOf (": ", StringComparison.Ordinal);
+				if (idx <= 0)
+					return v;
+				return v.Substring (idx + 2);
+			});
+		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs b/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs
index 6adccd5b8c..b4c6933551 100644
--- a/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs
+++ b/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs
@@ -1634,5 +1634,32 @@ namespace Xamarin.Tests {
 			AssertErrorCount (errors, 1, "Error count");
 			AssertErrorMessages (errors, $"The property '{property}' is deprecated, please remove it from the project file. Use 'RuntimeIdentifier' or 'RuntimeIdentifiers' instead to specify the target architecture.");
 		}
+
+		[Test]
+		// The trailing semi-colon for single-arch platforms is significant:
+		// it means we'll use "RuntimeIdentifiers" (plural) instead of "RuntimeIdentifier" (singular)
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.iOS, "ios-arm64;")]
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.MacOSX, "osx-arm64;osx-x64")]
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.MacCatalyst, "maccatalyst-x64;")]
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.TVOS, "tvos-arm64;")]
+		public void StrippedRuntimeIdentifiers (ApplePlatform platform, string runtimeIdentifiers)
+		{
+			var project = "MySimpleApp";
+			Configuration.IgnoreIfIgnoredPlatform (platform);
+			Configuration.AssertRuntimeIdentifiersAvailable (platform, runtimeIdentifiers);
+
+			var project_path = GetProjectPath (project, runtimeIdentifiers: runtimeIdentifiers, platform: platform, out var appPath);
+			Clean (project_path);
+			var properties = GetDefaultProperties (runtimeIdentifiers);
+			properties ["NoSymbolStrip"] = "false";
+			DotNet.AssertBuild (project_path, properties);
+
+			var appExecutable = GetNativeExecutable (platform, appPath);
+			ExecuteWithMagicWordAndAssert (platform, runtimeIdentifiers, appExecutable);
+
+			var symbols = Configuration.GetNativeSymbols (appExecutable);
+			Assert.That (symbols, Does.Contain ("_xamarin_release_managed_ref"), "_xamarin_release_managed_ref");
+		}
+
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/mtouch/MTouch.cs b/tests/mtouch/MTouch.cs
index 0e5f940e61..c77afd80c2 100644
--- a/tests/mtouch/MTouch.cs
+++ b/tests/mtouch/MTouch.cs
@@ -4715,20 +4715,7 @@ public class TestApp {
 
 		public static IEnumerable<string> GetNativeSymbols (string file, string arch = null)
 		{
-			var arguments = new List<string> (new [] { "-gUjA", file });
-			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (arch)) {
-				arguments.Add ("-arch");
-				arguments.Add (arch);
-			}
-			var symbols = ExecutionHelper.Execute ("nm", arguments, hide_output: true).Split ('\n');
-			return symbols.Where ((v) => {
-				return !v.EndsWith (": no symbols", StringComparison.Ordinal);
-			}).Select ((v) => {
-				var idx = v.LastIndexOf (": ", StringComparison.Ordinal);
-				if (idx <= 0)
-					return v;
-				return v.Substring (idx + 2);
-			});
+			return Configuration.GetNativeSymbols (file, arch);
 		}
 
 		static bool? is_apfs;