diff --git a/packages/replay-internal/src/replay.ts b/packages/replay-internal/src/replay.ts
index de2e596a0be1..9bb959b33dd4 100644
--- a/packages/replay-internal/src/replay.ts
+++ b/packages/replay-internal/src/replay.ts
@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ export class ReplayContainer implements ReplayContainerInterface {
       this._updateUserActivity(activityTime);
       this._updateSessionActivity(activityTime);
       this._maybeSaveSession();
+      setReplayIdOnDynamicSamplingContext(this.session.id);
     }
 
     this.startRecording();
diff --git a/packages/replay-internal/test/integration/errorSampleRate.test.ts b/packages/replay-internal/test/integration/errorSampleRate.test.ts
index b49882b72034..cf12ff990f00 100644
--- a/packages/replay-internal/test/integration/errorSampleRate.test.ts
+++ b/packages/replay-internal/test/integration/errorSampleRate.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  */
 
 import '../utils/mock-internal-setTimeout';
-import { captureException, getClient } from '@sentry/core';
+import { captureException, getClient, getCurrentScope } from '@sentry/core';
 import type { MockInstance } from 'vitest';
 import { afterEach, beforeAll, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 import {
@@ -383,6 +383,28 @@ describe('Integration | errorSampleRate', () => {
       });
     });
 
+    it('sets replay_id on DSC after converting from buffer to session mode', async () => {
+      const TEST_EVENT = getTestEventIncremental({ timestamp: BASE_TIMESTAMP });
+      mockRecord._emitter(TEST_EVENT);
+
+      // Simulate a cached DSC on the scope (as browserTracingIntegration would set)
+      getCurrentScope().setPropagationContext({
+        traceId: '00000000000000000000000000000000',
+        sampleRand: 0,
+        dsc: { trace_id: '00000000000000000000000000000000', sampled: 'true' },
+      });
+
+      expect(replay.recordingMode).toBe('buffer');
+      const dsc = getCurrentScope().getPropagationContext().dsc!;
+      expect(dsc.replay_id).toBeUndefined();
+
+      await replay.sendBufferedReplayOrFlush({ continueRecording: true });
+      await vi.advanceTimersToNextTimerAsync();
+
+      expect(replay.recordingMode).toBe('session');
+      expect(dsc.replay_id).toBe(replay.getSessionId());
+    });
+
     // This tests a regression where we were calling flush indiscriminantly in `stop()`
     it('does not upload a replay event if error is not sampled', async () => {
       // We are trying to replicate the case where error rate is 0 and session