diff --git a/libs/gui/LayerState.cpp b/libs/gui/LayerState.cpp
index fd8fc8d..97a82be 100644
--- a/libs/gui/LayerState.cpp
+++ b/libs/gui/LayerState.cpp
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
         defaultFrameRateCompatibility(ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_COMPATIBILITY_DEFAULT),
         frameRateCategory(ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_CATEGORY_DEFAULT),
         frameRateCategorySmoothSwitchOnly(false),
-        frameRateSelectionStrategy(ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_SELF),
+        frameRateSelectionStrategy(ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_PROPAGATE),
         fixedTransformHint(ui::Transform::ROT_INVALID),
         autoRefresh(false),
         isTrustedOverlay(false),
diff --git a/libs/nativewindow/include/system/window.h b/libs/nativewindow/include/system/window.h
index 0583812..e41aa06 100644
--- a/libs/nativewindow/include/system/window.h
+++ b/libs/nativewindow/include/system/window.h
@@ -1104,29 +1104,33 @@
     /**
      * Default value. The layer uses its own frame rate specifications, assuming it has any
      * specifications, instead of its parent's. If it does not have its own frame rate
-     * specifications, it will try to use its parent's.
+     * specifications, it will try to use its parent's. It will propagate its specifications to any
+     * descendants that do not have their own.
      *
      * However, FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_OVERRIDE_CHILDREN on an ancestor layer
-     * supersedes this behavior, meaning that this layer will inherit the frame rate specifications
-     * of that ancestor layer.
+     * supersedes this behavior, meaning that this layer will inherit frame rate specifications
+     * regardless of whether it has its own.
      */
-    ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_SELF = 0,
+    ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_PROPAGATE = 0,
 
     /**
      * The layer's frame rate specifications will propagate to and override those of its descendant
      * layers.
-     * The layer with this strategy has the ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_SELF
-     * behavior for itself.
+     *
+     * The layer itself has the FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_PROPAGATE behavior.
+     * Thus, ancestor layer that also has the strategy
+     * FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_OVERRIDE_CHILDREN will override this layer's
+     * frame rate specifications.
      */
     ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_OVERRIDE_CHILDREN = 1,
 
     /**
-     * The layer's frame rate specifications will never propagate to its descendant
-     * layers.
-     * FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_OVERRIDE_CHILDREN on an ancestor layer supersedes
-     * this behavior.
+     * The layer's frame rate specifications will not propagate to its descendant
+     * layers, even if the descendant layer has no frame rate specifications.
+     * However, FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_OVERRIDE_CHILDREN on an ancestor
+     * layer supersedes this behavior.
      */
-    ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_DO_NOT_PROPAGATE = 2,
+    ANATIVEWINDOW_FRAME_RATE_SELECTION_STRATEGY_SELF = 2,
 };
 
 static inline int native_window_set_frame_rate(struct ANativeWindow* window, float frameRate,