diff --git a/native/redux/persist.js b/native/redux/persist.js
--- a/native/redux/persist.js
+++ b/native/redux/persist.js
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
   convertUserInfosToReplaceUserOps,
   userStoreOpsHandlers,
 } from 'lib/ops/user-store-ops.js';
-import { patchRawThreadInfosWithSpecialRole } from 'lib/permissions/special-roles.js';
 import { filterThreadIDsInFilterList } from 'lib/reducers/calendar-filters-reducer.js';
 import { highestLocalIDSelector } from 'lib/selectors/local-id-selectors.js';
 import { createAsyncMigrate } from 'lib/shared/create-async-migrate.js';
@@ -108,7 +107,6 @@
 import {
   createUpdateDBOpsForMessageStoreMessages,
   createUpdateDBOpsForMessageStoreThreads,
-  updateClientDBThreadStoreThreadInfos,
 } from './client-db-utils.js';
 import { defaultState } from './default-state.js';
 import {
@@ -1133,12 +1131,10 @@
     }
     return newState;
   },
-  [64]: (state: AppState) =>
-    updateClientDBThreadStoreThreadInfos(
-      state,
-      patchRawThreadInfosWithSpecialRole,
-      handleReduxMigrationFailure,
-    ),
+  // Migration 64 is a noop to unblock a `native` release since the previous
+  // contents are not ready to be deployed to prod and we don't want to
+  // decrement migration 65.
+  [64]: (state: AppState) => state,
   [65]: async (state: AppState) => {
     const replaceOp: ReplaceIntegrityThreadHashesOperation = {
       type: 'replace_integrity_thread_hashes',