diff --git a/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/SymbolStrip.cs b/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/SymbolStrip.cs
index 759d98fb812..7b7db8de10f 100644
--- a/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/SymbolStrip.cs
+++ b/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/SymbolStrip.cs
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ public class SymbolStrip : XamarinParallelTask, ITaskCallback {
 		// This can also be specified as metadata on the Executable item (as 'SymbolFile')
 		public string SymbolFile { get; set; } = string.Empty;
 
+		// The local path to the symbol file (used to transfer it to the remote Mac).
+		// This can also be specified as metadata on the Executable item (as 'SymbolFileLocalPath')
+		public string SymbolFileLocalPath { get; set; } = string.Empty;
+
 		// This can also be specified as metadata on the Executable item (as 'Kind')
 		public string Kind { get; set; } = string.Empty;
 		#endregion
@@ -78,6 +82,16 @@ public override bool Execute ()
 
 		public bool ShouldCreateOutputFile (ITaskItem item) => false;
 
-		public IEnumerable<ITaskItem> GetAdditionalItemsToBeCopied () => Enumerable.Empty<ITaskItem> ();
+		public IEnumerable<ITaskItem> GetAdditionalItemsToBeCopied ()
+		{
+			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (SymbolFileLocalPath))
+				yield return new Microsoft.Build.Utilities.TaskItem (SymbolFileLocalPath);
+
+			foreach (var item in Executable) {
+				var symbolFileLocalPath = item.GetMetadata ("SymbolFileLocalPath");
+				if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (symbolFileLocalPath))
+					yield return new Microsoft.Build.Utilities.TaskItem (symbolFileLocalPath);
+			}
+		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets b/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets
index 5accac63eb0..4701cb4c38c 100644
--- a/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets
+++ b/msbuild/Xamarin.Shared/Xamarin.Shared.targets
@@ -3029,7 +3029,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2018 Microsoft. All rights reserved.
 				<DSymName>%(Filename).dSYM</DSymName>
 			</_PostProcessingItem>
 			<_PostProcessingItem Include="$([System.IO.Path]::GetFileName('$(AppBundleDir)'))/$(_NativeExecutableRelativePath)" Condition="'$(IsWatchApp)' != 'true'">
-				<SymbolFile Condition="'$(_ExportSymbolsExplicitly)' == 'true'">$(_SymbolsListFullPath)</SymbolFile>
+				<SymbolFile>$(_SymbolsListFullPath)</SymbolFile>
+				<SymbolFileLocalPath>$(_MtouchSymbolsList)</SymbolFileLocalPath>
 				<DSymName>$(_AppBundleName)$(AppBundleExtension).dSYM</DSymName>
 				<IsXPCService>$(IsXpcService)</IsXPCService>
 				<IsAppExtension>$(IsAppExtension)</IsAppExtension>
@@ -3201,6 +3202,7 @@ Copyright (C) 2018 Microsoft. All rights reserved.
 			MaxDegreeOfParallelism="$(SymbolStripMaxDegreeOfParallelism)"
 			StripPath="$(StripPath)"
 			SymbolFile="%(_NativeStripItems.SymbolFile)"
+			SymbolFileLocalPath="%(_NativeStripItems.SymbolFileLocalPath)"
 		/>
 
 		<!-- Create/touch the stamp file. -->
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs b/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs
index 64d3af42e5d..1e27e914109 100644
--- a/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs
+++ b/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/ProjectTest.cs
@@ -2811,6 +2811,29 @@ public void StrippedRuntimeIdentifiers (ApplePlatform platform, string runtimeId
 			Assert.That (symbols, Does.Contain ("_xamarin_release_managed_ref"), "_xamarin_release_managed_ref");
 		}
 
+		[Test]
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.MacOSX, "osx-arm64;osx-x64")]
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.MacCatalyst, "maccatalyst-x64;")]
+		public void StrippedWithExportSymbolsExplicitlyFalse (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";
+			properties ["_ExportSymbolsExplicitly"] = "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");
+		}
+
 		[Test]
 		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.iOS, "ios-arm64;", "iOS")]
 		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.MacOSX, "osx-arm64;osx-x64", "macOS")]