diff --git a/packages/react-query/src/__tests__/useQuery.test-d.tsx b/packages/react-query/src/__tests__/useQuery.test-d.tsx
index 2e38415dec..dd4fae2d9d 100644
--- a/packages/react-query/src/__tests__/useQuery.test-d.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-query/src/__tests__/useQuery.test-d.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expectTypeOf, it } from 'vitest'
 import { useQuery } from '../useQuery'
 import { queryOptions } from '../queryOptions'
 import type { OmitKeyof } from '..'
-import type { UseQueryOptions } from '../types'
+import type { UseQueryOptions, UseQueryResult } from '../types'
 
 describe('initialData', () => {
   describe('Config object overload', () => {
@@ -127,6 +127,59 @@ describe('initialData', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  describe('TData type inference', () => {
+    it('no inference of TData from return annotations', () => {
+      const _testFn = (): UseQueryResult<string, unknown> => {
+        // @ts-expect-error expect number to be un-assignable to string
+        return useQuery({
+          queryKey: [],
+          queryFn: () => 5,
+        })
+      }
+
+      // @ts-expect-error expect number to be un-assignable to string
+      const _val: UseQueryResult<string, unknown> = useQuery({
+        queryKey: [],
+        queryFn: () => 5,
+      })
+    })
+
+    it('correct or superset type annotations produce no type errors', () => {
+      const _testFn = (): UseQueryResult<number | string, unknown> => {
+        return useQuery({
+          queryKey: [],
+          queryFn: () => 5,
+        })
+      }
+
+      expectTypeOf(_testFn()['data']).toEqualTypeOf<string | number>()
+
+      const _val: UseQueryResult<string | number, unknown> = useQuery({
+        queryKey: [],
+        queryFn: () => 5,
+      })
+
+      expectTypeOf(_val['data']).toEqualTypeOf<string | number | undefined>()
+    })
+
+    it('usage of select function still changes generic inference', () => {
+      const result = useQuery({
+        queryKey: [],
+        queryFn: () => 5,
+        select: () => 'foo',
+      })
+
+      expectTypeOf(result['data']).toEqualTypeOf<string | undefined>()
+
+      const _result2 = useQuery<number, unknown, string, unknown[]>({
+        queryKey: [],
+        queryFn: () => 5,
+        // @ts-expect-error select fn differs from generic (when provided), so correctly type errors)
+        select: () => 5,
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
   describe('structuralSharing', () => {
     it('should restrict to same types', () => {
       useQuery({
diff --git a/packages/react-query/src/useQuery.ts b/packages/react-query/src/useQuery.ts
index 962ef4da66..52d479551d 100644
--- a/packages/react-query/src/useQuery.ts
+++ b/packages/react-query/src/useQuery.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 'use client'
 import { QueryObserver } from '@tanstack/query-core'
 import { useBaseQuery } from './useBaseQuery'
-import type { DefaultError, QueryClient, QueryKey } from '@tanstack/query-core'
+import type {
+  DefaultError,
+  NoInfer,
+  QueryClient,
+  QueryKey,
+} from '@tanstack/query-core'
 import type {
   DefinedUseQueryResult,
   UseQueryOptions,
@@ -20,7 +25,7 @@ export function useQuery<
 >(
   options: DefinedInitialDataOptions<TQueryFnData, TError, TData, TQueryKey>,
   queryClient?: QueryClient,
-): DefinedUseQueryResult<TData, TError>
+): DefinedUseQueryResult<NoInfer<TData>, TError>
 
 export function useQuery<
   TQueryFnData = unknown,
@@ -30,7 +35,7 @@ export function useQuery<
 >(
   options: UndefinedInitialDataOptions<TQueryFnData, TError, TData, TQueryKey>,
   queryClient?: QueryClient,
-): UseQueryResult<TData, TError>
+): UseQueryResult<NoInfer<TData>, TError>
 
 export function useQuery<
   TQueryFnData = unknown,
@@ -40,7 +45,7 @@ export function useQuery<
 >(
   options: UseQueryOptions<TQueryFnData, TError, TData, TQueryKey>,
   queryClient?: QueryClient,
-): UseQueryResult<TData, TError>
+): UseQueryResult<NoInfer<TData>, TError>
 
 export function useQuery(options: UseQueryOptions, queryClient?: QueryClient) {
   return useBaseQuery(options, QueryObserver, queryClient)