diff --git a/cc/lto.go b/cc/lto.go
index df9ca0a..281b527 100644
--- a/cc/lto.go
+++ b/cc/lto.go
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
 // optimized at link time and may not be compatible with features that require
 // LTO, such as CFI.
 //
-// This file adds support to soong to automatically propogate LTO options to a
+// This file adds support to soong to automatically propagate LTO options to a
 // new variant of all static dependencies for each module with LTO enabled.
 
 type LTOProperties struct {
-	// Lto must violate capitialization style for acronyms so that it can be
+	// Lto must violate capitalization style for acronyms so that it can be
 	// referred to in blueprint files as "lto"
 	Lto struct {
 		Never *bool `android:"arch_variant"`
@@ -67,10 +67,12 @@
 }
 
 func (lto *lto) begin(ctx BaseModuleContext) {
-	// First, determine the module indepedent default LTO mode.
+	// First, determine the module independent default LTO mode.
 	ltoDefault := GlobalThinLTO(ctx)
 	if ctx.Config().IsEnvTrue("DISABLE_LTO") {
 		ltoDefault = false
+	} else if lto.Never() {
+		ltoDefault = false
 	} else if ctx.Host() {
 		// Performance and binary size are less important for host binaries.
 		ltoDefault = false
diff --git a/cc/lto_test.go b/cc/lto_test.go
index e0afd4a..7b7fe8c 100644
--- a/cc/lto_test.go
+++ b/cc/lto_test.go
@@ -23,11 +23,19 @@
 	"github.com/google/blueprint"
 )
 
-var NoGlobalThinLTOPreparer = android.GroupFixturePreparers(
+var LTOPreparer = android.GroupFixturePreparers(
 	prepareForCcTest,
-	android.FixtureModifyEnv(func(env map[string]string) {
-		env["GLOBAL_THINLTO"] = "false"
-	}))
+)
+
+func hasDep(result *android.TestResult, m android.Module, wantDep android.Module) bool {
+	var found bool
+	result.VisitDirectDeps(m, func(dep blueprint.Module) {
+		if dep == wantDep {
+			found = true
+		}
+	})
+	return found
+}
 
 func TestThinLtoDeps(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
@@ -37,9 +45,6 @@
 		srcs: ["src.c"],
 		static_libs: ["foo", "lib_never_lto"],
 		shared_libs: ["bar"],
-		lto: {
-			thin: true,
-		}
 	}
 	cc_library_static {
 		name: "foo",
@@ -63,50 +68,40 @@
 	}
 `
 
-	result := NoGlobalThinLTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
+	result := LTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
 
 	libLto := result.ModuleForTests("lto_enabled", "android_arm64_armv8-a_shared").Module()
 
-	hasDep := func(m android.Module, wantDep android.Module) bool {
-		var found bool
-		result.VisitDirectDeps(m, func(dep blueprint.Module) {
-			if dep == wantDep {
-				found = true
-			}
-		})
-		return found
+	libFoo := result.ModuleForTests("foo", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static").Module()
+	if !hasDep(result, libLto, libFoo) {
+		t.Errorf("'lto_enabled' missing dependency on the default variant of 'foo'")
 	}
 
-	libFoo := result.ModuleForTests("foo", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static_lto-thin").Module()
-	if !hasDep(libLto, libFoo) {
-		t.Errorf("'lto_enabled' missing dependency on thin lto variant of 'foo'")
+	libBaz := result.ModuleForTests("baz", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static").Module()
+	if !hasDep(result, libFoo, libBaz) {
+		t.Errorf("'foo' missing dependency on the default variant of transitive dep 'baz'")
 	}
 
-	libBaz := result.ModuleForTests("baz", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static_lto-thin").Module()
-	if !hasDep(libFoo, libBaz) {
-		t.Errorf("'foo' missing dependency on thin lto variant of transitive dep 'baz'")
-	}
-
-	libNeverLto := result.ModuleForTests("lib_never_lto", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static_lto-thin").Module()
-	if !hasDep(libLto, libNeverLto) {
-		t.Errorf("'lto_enabled' missing dependency on NO-thin lto variant of 'lib_never_lto'")
+	libNeverLto := result.ModuleForTests("lib_never_lto", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static").Module()
+	if !hasDep(result, libLto, libNeverLto) {
+		t.Errorf("'lto_enabled' missing dependency on the default variant of 'lib_never_lto'")
 	}
 
 	libBar := result.ModuleForTests("bar", "android_arm64_armv8-a_shared").Module()
-	if !hasDep(libLto, libBar) {
-		t.Errorf("'lto_enabled' missing dependency on non-thin lto variant of 'bar'")
+	if !hasDep(result, libLto, libBar) {
+		t.Errorf("'lto_enabled' missing dependency on the default variant of 'bar'")
 	}
 
 	barVariants := result.ModuleVariantsForTests("bar")
 	for _, v := range barVariants {
-		if strings.Contains(v, "lto-thin") {
-			t.Errorf("Expected variants for 'bar' to not contain 'lto-thin', but found %q", v)
+		if strings.Contains(v, "lto-none") {
+			t.Errorf("Expected variants for 'bar' to not contain 'lto-none', but found %q", v)
 		}
 	}
 	quxVariants := result.ModuleVariantsForTests("qux")
 	for _, v := range quxVariants {
-		if strings.Contains(v, "lto-thin") {
-			t.Errorf("Expected variants for 'qux' to not contain 'lto-thin', but found %q", v)
+		if strings.Contains(v, "lto-none") {
+			t.Errorf("Expected variants for 'qux' to not contain 'lto-none', but found %q", v)
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -141,28 +136,18 @@
 	}
 `
 
-	result := NoGlobalThinLTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
+	result := LTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
 
 	libRoot := result.ModuleForTests("root", "android_arm64_armv8-a_shared").Module()
 	libRootLtoNever := result.ModuleForTests("root_no_lto", "android_arm64_armv8-a_shared").Module()
 
-	hasDep := func(m android.Module, wantDep android.Module) bool {
-		var found bool
-		result.VisitDirectDeps(m, func(dep blueprint.Module) {
-			if dep == wantDep {
-				found = true
-			}
-		})
-		return found
-	}
-
 	libFoo := result.ModuleForTests("foo", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static")
-	if !hasDep(libRoot, libFoo.Module()) {
-		t.Errorf("'root' missing dependency on thin lto variant of 'foo'")
+	if !hasDep(result, libRoot, libFoo.Module()) {
+		t.Errorf("'root' missing dependency on the default variant of 'foo'")
 	}
 
-	if !hasDep(libRootLtoNever, libFoo.Module()) {
-		t.Errorf("'root_no_lto' missing dependency on thin lto variant of 'foo'")
+	if !hasDep(result, libRootLtoNever, libFoo.Module()) {
+		t.Errorf("'root_no_lto' missing dependency on the default variant of 'foo'")
 	}
 
 	libFooCFlags := libFoo.Rule("cc").Args["cFlags"]
@@ -170,9 +155,9 @@
 		t.Errorf("'foo' expected to have flags %q, but got %q", w, libFooCFlags)
 	}
 
-	libBaz := result.ModuleForTests("baz", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static_lto-thin")
-	if !hasDep(libFoo.Module(), libBaz.Module()) {
-		t.Errorf("'foo' missing dependency on thin lto variant of transitive dep 'baz'")
+	libBaz := result.ModuleForTests("baz", "android_arm64_armv8-a_static")
+	if !hasDep(result, libFoo.Module(), libBaz.Module()) {
+		t.Errorf("'foo' missing dependency on the default variant of transitive dep 'baz'")
 	}
 
 	libBazCFlags := libFoo.Rule("cc").Args["cFlags"]
@@ -199,7 +184,7 @@
 			},
 		},
 	}`
-	result := NoGlobalThinLTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
+	result := LTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
 
 	libFooWithLto := result.ModuleForTests("libfoo", "android_arm_armv7-a-neon_shared").Rule("ld")
 	libFooWithoutLto := result.ModuleForTests("libfoo", "android_arm64_armv8-a_shared").Rule("ld")
@@ -227,7 +212,7 @@
 		},
 	}`
 
-	result := NoGlobalThinLTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
+	result := LTOPreparer.RunTestWithBp(t, bp)
 
 	libFoo := result.ModuleForTests("libfoo", "android_arm_armv7-a-neon_shared").Rule("ld")
 	libBar := result.ModuleForTests("runtime_libbar", "android_arm_armv7-a-neon_shared").Rule("ld")