diff --git a/metadata/cx.ring.yml b/metadata/cx.ring.yml
index 4d44370a26..35c2bee8bb 100644
--- a/metadata/cx.ring.yml
+++ b/metadata/cx.ring.yml
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ Builds:
       - export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT="$ANDROID_NDK"
       - export ANDROID_ABI="armeabi-v7a arm64-v8a x86_64"
       - ./compile.sh --release --daemon
-    ndk: r23
+    ndk: r22b
 
 MaintainerNotes: |-
     Ring has a lot of native dependencies, the source tarballs of these are all downloaded and build for all enabled architectures.