diff --git a/packages/react-native/scripts/codegen/generate-artifacts-executor/index.js b/packages/react-native/scripts/codegen/generate-artifacts-executor/index.js
index f057a9eb05ee32..20aed7c0a2a8d6 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/scripts/codegen/generate-artifacts-executor/index.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/scripts/codegen/generate-artifacts-executor/index.js
@@ -90,8 +90,14 @@ function execute(
 
     const reactNativeConfig = readReactNativeConfig(
       projectRoot,
-      baseOutputPath,
+      // NOTE: Used to load `build/generated/autolinking/autolinking.json` generated by `scripts/cocoapods/autolinking.rb`
+      // If we have RCT_SCRIPT_OUTPUT_DIR (set in `react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.sh`, it takes precedence, otherwise
+      // we search for the `autolinking.json` output in the `baseOutputPath`
+      process.env.RCT_SCRIPT_OUTPUT_DIR != null && process.env.RCT_SCRIPT_OUTPUT_DIR.length > 0
+        ? process.env.RCT_SCRIPT_OUTPUT_DIR
+        : baseOutputPath,
     );
+
     const codegenEnabledLibraries = findCodegenEnabledLibraries(
       pkgJson,
       projectRoot,
diff --git a/packages/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.sh b/packages/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.sh
index 92325f1ad078f4..0878b9d6a8cf8a 100755
--- a/packages/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.sh
+++ b/packages/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods_utils/script_phases.sh
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ generateCodegenArtifactsFromSchema () {
 generateArtifacts () {
     describe "Generating codegen artifacts"
     pushd "$RCT_SCRIPT_RN_DIR" >/dev/null || exit 1
-        "$NODE_BINARY" "scripts/generate-codegen-artifacts.js" --path "$RCT_SCRIPT_APP_PATH" --outputPath "$TEMP_OUTPUT_DIR" --targetPlatform "ios"
+        "$NODE_BINARY" "scripts/generate-codegen-artifacts.js" --path "$RCT_SCRIPT_APP_PATH" --outputPath "$RCT_SCRIPT_OUTPUT_DIR" --targetPlatform "ios"
     popd >/dev/null || exit 1
 }
 
@@ -110,11 +110,9 @@ moveOutputs () {
 }
 
 withCodegenDiscovery () {
-    setup_dirs
     find_node
     find_codegen
     generateArtifacts
-    moveOutputs
 }
 
 noCodegenDiscovery () {