diff --git a/packages/react-native/index.js b/packages/react-native/index.js
index c91b94e4479..e437f268b11 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/index.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/index.js
@@ -367,10 +367,13 @@ module.exports = {
   get useWindowDimensions() {
     return require('./Libraries/Utilities/useWindowDimensions').default;
   },
+  /**
+   * @deprecated UTFSequence will be removed in a future release. Please insert Unicode escape sequences directly
+   */
   get UTFSequence() {
     warnOnce(
-      'utfsequence-will-be-remove',
-      'UTFSequence will be removed in a future release.',
+      'utfsequence-deprecated',
+      "UTFSequence has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please insert Unicode escape sequences directly, e.g. `'\\\ufeff'` (BOM)",
     );
     return require('./Libraries/UTFSequence').default;
   },