diff --git a/native/android/app/src/cpp/PlatformSpecificTools.cpp b/native/android/app/src/cpp/PlatformSpecificTools.cpp
index 6dbbdd9c5..d3f1dc58c 100644
--- a/native/android/app/src/cpp/PlatformSpecificTools.cpp
+++ b/native/android/app/src/cpp/PlatformSpecificTools.cpp
@@ -1,36 +1,40 @@
 #include "PlatformSpecificTools.h"
 #include "Logger.h"
 #include <fbjni/fbjni.h>
 
 using namespace facebook::jni;
 
 class PlatformSpecificToolsJavaClass
     : public JavaClass<PlatformSpecificToolsJavaClass> {
 public:
   static auto constexpr kJavaDescriptor =
       "Lapp/comm/android/fbjni/PlatformSpecificTools;";
 
   static comm::crypto::OlmBuffer generateSecureRandomBytes(size_t size) {
     static const auto cls = javaClassStatic();
     static auto method =
         cls->getStaticMethod<JArrayByte(int)>("generateSecureRandomBytes");
     auto methodResult = method(cls, (int)size);
     comm::crypto::OlmBuffer result(size);
     std::vector<jbyte> bytes(size);
     methodResult->getRegion(0, size, bytes.data());
     for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
       result[i] = bytes[i];
     }
     return result;
   }
 };
 
 namespace comm {
 
 void PlatformSpecificTools::generateSecureRandomBytes(
     crypto::OlmBuffer &buffer,
     size_t size) {
   buffer = PlatformSpecificToolsJavaClass::generateSecureRandomBytes(size);
 }
 
+std::string PlatformSpecificTools::getDeviceOS() {
+  return std::string{"android"};
+}
+
 } // namespace comm
diff --git a/native/cpp/CommonCpp/Tools/PlatformSpecificTools.h b/native/cpp/CommonCpp/Tools/PlatformSpecificTools.h
index addeb63c5..83d3b8567 100644
--- a/native/cpp/CommonCpp/Tools/PlatformSpecificTools.h
+++ b/native/cpp/CommonCpp/Tools/PlatformSpecificTools.h
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include "../CryptoTools/Tools.h"
 
 namespace comm {
 
 class PlatformSpecificTools {
 public:
   static void generateSecureRandomBytes(crypto::OlmBuffer &buffer, size_t size);
+  static std::string getDeviceOS();
 };
 
 } // namespace comm
diff --git a/native/ios/Comm/PlatformSpecificTools.mm b/native/ios/Comm/PlatformSpecificTools.mm
index 9550743bd..58b11cd1f 100644
--- a/native/ios/Comm/PlatformSpecificTools.mm
+++ b/native/ios/Comm/PlatformSpecificTools.mm
@@ -1,22 +1,26 @@
 #import "PlatformSpecificTools.h"
 #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
 #import <string>
 
 namespace comm {
 
 void PlatformSpecificTools::generateSecureRandomBytes(
     crypto::OlmBuffer &buffer,
     size_t size) {
   uint8_t randomBytes[size];
 
   const int status = SecRandomCopyBytes(kSecRandomDefault, size, randomBytes);
   if (status == errSecSuccess) {
     buffer = crypto::OlmBuffer(randomBytes, randomBytes + size);
   } else {
     throw std::runtime_error(
         "SecRandomCopyBytes failed for some reason, error code: " +
         std::to_string(status));
   }
 }
 
+std::string PlatformSpecificTools::getDeviceOS() {
+  return std::string{"ios"};
+}
+
 };