diff --git a/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.test.ts b/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.test.ts
index 00b365ef39..23eb46b460 100644
--- a/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.test.ts
+++ b/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.test.ts
@@ -600,6 +600,35 @@ describe("Apple application bridge candidates", () => {
       status: "complete",
     });
   });
+
+  it("keeps an extensionless Mach-O without an application root as a native component", () => {
+    const result = project(
+      inventoryEvidence("ipa", "Fixture.ipa", [
+        { path: "Payload/Fixture.app/Info.plist" },
+        macho("Payload/Fixture.app/Fixture"),
+        { path: "SwiftSupport/outside.js", format: "javascript-bundle" },
+        macho("SwiftSupport/HelperTool"),
+        macho("SwiftSupport/iphoneos/libswiftCore.dylib"),
+      ]),
+    );
+
+    expect(result.components.executables.map(({ path }) => path)).toEqual([
+      "Payload/Fixture.app/Fixture",
+      "SwiftSupport/HelperTool",
+    ]);
+    expect(result.bridge_candidates).toEqual([
+      {
+        source_path: "SwiftSupport/outside.js",
+        native_path: "SwiftSupport/HelperTool",
+        basis: "javascript-and-native-content",
+      },
+      {
+        source_path: "SwiftSupport/outside.js",
+        native_path: "SwiftSupport/iphoneos/libswiftCore.dylib",
+        basis: "javascript-and-native-content",
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("Apple path conventions", () => {
diff --git a/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.ts b/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.ts
index 587eb5a027..7911559e2c 100644
--- a/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.ts
+++ b/src/domain/apple/appleApplication.ts
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ const appleRootFormat = (format: string): RootFormat => {
   return root;
 };
 
+const isNativeLibrary = (path: string): boolean =>
+  /\.(?:dylib|so)$/iu.test(path);
+
 const classifyComponents = (
   entries: readonly AppleInventoryEntry[],
   all: readonly Component[],
@@ -271,11 +274,13 @@ const classifyComponents = (
     bundle_metadata: all.filter(({ path }) =>
       anatomyNameIs(lastSegment(path), "Info.plist"),
     ),
+    // An unrooted IPA library is listed only under native_libraries.
     executables: all.filter(
-      ({ path, format }) => withinApp(path) && isMachOFormat(format),
+      ({ path, format }) =>
+        isMachOFormat(format) && (withinApp(path) || !isNativeLibrary(path)),
     ),
     frameworks: all.filter(({ path }) => /\.framework\//u.test(path)),
-    native_libraries: all.filter(({ path }) => /\.(?:dylib|so)$/iu.test(path)),
+    native_libraries: all.filter(({ path }) => isNativeLibrary(path)),
     javascript: all.filter(({ format }) => format === "javascript-bundle"),
     signing: all.filter(
       ({ path }) =>