diff --git a/ext/EnzymeStaticArraysExt.jl b/ext/EnzymeStaticArraysExt.jl
index eaae75cccb..c2639a4c99 100644
--- a/ext/EnzymeStaticArraysExt.jl
+++ b/ext/EnzymeStaticArraysExt.jl
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ end
     reshape(reduce(hcat, map(vec, rows)), Size(outshape..., inshape...))
 end
 
+@inline Enzyme.specialize_output(output, input::StaticArray) = convert(SArray, output)
+
 @inline function Enzyme.onehot(x::StaticArrays.SArray{S, T, N, L}) where {S, T, N, L}
     ntuple(Val(L)) do i
         Base.@_inline_meta
diff --git a/src/Enzyme.jl b/src/Enzyme.jl
index 51b40cee37..7caa06c281 100644
--- a/src/Enzyme.jl
+++ b/src/Enzyme.jl
@@ -1884,6 +1884,8 @@ end
     end
 end
 
+@inline specialize_output(output, input) = output
+
 """
     gradient(::ForwardMode, f, x; shadows=onehot(x), chunk=nothing)
 
@@ -2135,11 +2137,11 @@ gradient(Forward, mul, [2.0, 3.0], Const([2.7, 3.1]))
                             # st : outshape x total inputs
                             tupstack($tmp, outshape, inshape)
                         else
-                            TupleArray($tmp, size($arg))
+                            specialize_output(TupleArray($tmp, size($arg)), $(vals[1]))
                         end
                     end
                 else
-                    :(TupleArray($tmp, size($arg)))
+                    :(specialize_output(TupleArray($tmp, size($arg)), $(vals[1])))
                 end
             else
                 tmp
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index c3856aabf1..ba206cb536 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -2860,9 +2860,11 @@ end
 
     x = @SVector Float64[1, 2]
 
+
+    @inferred gradient(Forward, f0, x)
     dx = gradient(Forward, f0, x)[1]
-    @test dx isa Enzyme.TupleArray
-    @test convert(SArray, dx) == [2.0, 2.0]  # test to make sure conversion works
+    @test dx isa SVector
+    @test dx == [2.0, 2.0]  # test to make sure conversion works
     @test gradient(Forward, f1, x)[1] isa SMatrix
     @test gradient(Forward, f1, x)[1] == [0 1.0; 0 2.0]
     @test Enzyme.jacobian(Forward, f2, x)[1] isa SArray
@@ -2870,9 +2872,10 @@ end
 
     x = @SMatrix Float64[1 2; 3 4]
 
+    @inferred gradient(Forward, f0, x)
     dx = gradient(Forward, f0, x)[1]
-    @test dx isa Enzyme.TupleArray
-    @test convert(SArray, dx) == fill(2.0, (2,2))
+    @test dx isa SVector
+    @test dx == fill(2.0, (2,2))
     @test gradient(Forward, f1, x)[1] isa SArray
     @test gradient(Forward, f1, x)[1] == reshape(Float64[0,0,1,2,0,0,0,0], (2,2,2))
     @test Enzyme.jacobian(Forward, f2, x)[1] isa SArray
@@ -2882,9 +2885,10 @@ end
 
     x = @SVector Float64[1, 2]
 
+    @inferred gradient(Reverse, f0, x)
     dx = gradient(Reverse, f0, x)[1]
     @test dx isa SVector
-    @test convert(SArray, dx) == [2.0, 2.0]  # test to make sure conversion works
+    @test dx == [2.0, 2.0]  # test to make sure conversion works
     @test_broken gradient(Reverse, f1, x)[1] isa SMatrix
     @test_broken gradient(Reverse, f1, x)[1] == [0 1.0; 0 2.0]
     @test_broken Enzyme.jacobian(Reverse, f2, x)[1] isa SArray