diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1185d47aaf9..e90dd19de01 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 - Decide whether foregrounding the app starts a new session on a monotonic clock instead of the wall clock, so that a device time change no longer starts a session that should have been resumed, or resumes one that should have ended. This affects session counts ([#6096](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/6096))
 - `SentryUserFeedbackForm` now extends `android.app.Dialog` instead of `android.app.AlertDialog` ([#6338](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/6338))
   - The form never used `AlertDialog` features. Code that calls `AlertDialog`-only methods on it, such as `setButton` or `setMessage`, no longer compiles.
+- `sentry-android` no longer includes `sentry-android-ndk` as a default dependency. Instead, tombstone reporting is enabled by default, which provides more detailed native crashes on Android 11+ (API 30). If you're using sentry-android-ndk APIs, or need native crashes on Android 10 and lower, manually add the `io.sentry:sentry-android-ndk` dependency to your app. ([#6436](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/6436))
 
 ## 8.62.0
 
diff --git a/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/SentryAndroidOptions.java b/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/SentryAndroidOptions.java
index b88bb6fdf79..e80d3b64855 100644
--- a/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/SentryAndroidOptions.java
+++ b/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/SentryAndroidOptions.java
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ public interface BeforeCaptureCallback {
 
   private @Nullable SentryFrameMetricsCollector frameMetricsCollector;
 
-  private boolean enableTombstone = false;
+  private boolean enableTombstone = true;
 
   /**
    * The maximum time difference, in milliseconds, between a tombstone from {@link
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ public void setTombstoneEnabled(boolean enableTombstone) {
 
   /**
    * Checks if Tombstone reporting (ApplicationExitInfo.REASON_CRASH_NATIVE) is enabled or disabled
-   * Default is disabled
+   * Default is enabled
    *
    * @return true if enabled or false otherwise
    */
diff --git a/sentry-android-core/src/test/java/io/sentry/android/core/ManifestMetadataReaderTest.kt b/sentry-android-core/src/test/java/io/sentry/android/core/ManifestMetadataReaderTest.kt
index 6684f8c617d..7c52f8959a7 100644
--- a/sentry-android-core/src/test/java/io/sentry/android/core/ManifestMetadataReaderTest.kt
+++ b/sentry-android-core/src/test/java/io/sentry/android/core/ManifestMetadataReaderTest.kt
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ class ManifestMetadataReaderTest {
     ManifestMetadataReader.applyMetadata(context, fixture.options, fixture.buildInfoProvider)
 
     // Assert
-    assertEquals(false, fixture.options.isTombstoneEnabled)
+    assertEquals(true, fixture.options.isTombstoneEnabled)
   }
 
   @Test
diff --git a/sentry-android/build.gradle.kts b/sentry-android/build.gradle.kts
index 4c493e9e2d2..67c40b2f85e 100644
--- a/sentry-android/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/sentry-android/build.gradle.kts
@@ -28,6 +28,5 @@ android {
 
 dependencies {
   api(projects.sentryAndroidCore)
-  api(projects.sentryAndroidNdk)
   api(projects.sentryAndroidReplay)
 }
diff --git a/sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android/build.gradle.kts b/sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android/build.gradle.kts
index a9d4ea8ac5f..441271bc5eb 100644
--- a/sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android/build.gradle.kts
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ dependencies {
 
   implementation(projects.sentryAndroid)
   implementation(projects.sentryAndroidFragment)
+  implementation(projects.sentryAndroidNdk)
   implementation(projects.sentryAndroidNavigation)
   implementation(projects.sentryAndroidNavigation3)
   implementation(projects.sentryAndroidSqlite)