diff --git a/nativescript-angular/bin/update-app-ng-deps b/nativescript-angular/bin/update-app-ng-deps
index 1cf6786ce..c73de3e66 100755
--- a/nativescript-angular/bin/update-app-ng-deps
+++ b/nativescript-angular/bin/update-app-ng-deps
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ function updateDeps(deps, devDeps, newDeps) {
 
             console.log(`Updated dependency ${dependencyName} to version: ${version}.`);
         });
+
+    if (deps["@angular/animations"]) {
+        const ngDep = Object.keys(newDeps).find(dep => dep.startsWith("@angular"));
+        deps["@angular/animations"] = newDeps[ngDep];
+    }
 }
 
 const pluginDeps = pluginPackageJson.peerDependencies;