diff --git a/src/types/index.ts b/src/types/index.ts
index 8e70c8f4..d8b3b0d8 100644
--- a/src/types/index.ts
+++ b/src/types/index.ts
@@ -152,7 +152,13 @@ export interface BeeOptions extends RequestOptions {
 }
 
 export interface UploadResultWithCid extends UploadResult {
-  cid: string
+  /**
+   * Function that converts the reference into Swarm CIDs
+   *
+   * @throws TypeError if the reference is encrypted reference (eq. 128 chars long) which is not supported in CID
+   * @see https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm-cid-js
+   */
+  cid: () => string
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/utils/type.ts b/src/utils/type.ts
index e65c5669..9d8eac6a 100644
--- a/src/utils/type.ts
+++ b/src/utils/type.ts
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ export function makeReferenceOrEns(value: unknown, expectedCidType: ReferenceTyp
 export function addCidConversionFunction(result: UploadResult, cidType: ReferenceType): UploadResultWithCid {
   return {
     ...result,
-    get cid() {
+    cid() {
       return encodeReference(result.reference, cidType).toString()
     },
   }
diff --git a/test/integration/bee-class.spec.ts b/test/integration/bee-class.spec.ts
index 805fa872..a6c15d8e 100644
--- a/test/integration/bee-class.spec.ts
+++ b/test/integration/bee-class.spec.ts
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ describe('Bee class', () => {
       const contentType = 'text/html'
 
       const result = await bee.uploadFile(getPostageBatch(), content, name, { contentType })
-      const file = await bee.downloadFile(result.cid)
+      const file = await bee.downloadFile(result.cid())
 
       expect(file.name).toEqual(name)
       expect(file.data).toEqual(content)
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ describe('Bee class', () => {
       ]
 
       const result = await bee.uploadCollection(getPostageBatch(), directoryStructure)
-      const file = await bee.downloadFile(result.cid, directoryStructure[0].path)
+      const file = await bee.downloadFile(result.cid(), directoryStructure[0].path)
 
       expect(file.name).toEqual(directoryStructure[0].path)
       expect(file.data.text()).toEqual('hello-CID-world')
diff --git a/test/unit/bee-class.spec.ts b/test/unit/bee-class.spec.ts
index a8166b91..572ac052 100644
--- a/test/unit/bee-class.spec.ts
+++ b/test/unit/bee-class.spec.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
 import {
   randomByteArray,
   testBatchId,
+  testChunkEncryptedReference,
   testChunkHash,
   testIdentity,
   testJsonCid,
@@ -85,11 +86,32 @@ describe('Bee class', () => {
     const bee = new Bee(MOCK_SERVER_URL, { defaultHeaders })
     const reference = await bee.uploadFile(testBatchId, 'hello world', 'nice.txt')
 
-    expect(reference).toEqual({
-      cid: testJsonCid,
-      reference: testJsonHash,
-      tagUid: 123,
-    })
+    expect(reference).toEqual(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        reference: testJsonHash,
+        tagUid: 123,
+      }),
+    )
+
+    expect(reference.cid()).toEqual(testJsonCid)
+  })
+
+  it('cid should throw for encrypted references', async () => {
+    uploadFileMock(testBatchId, 'nice.txt').reply(200, {
+      reference: testChunkEncryptedReference,
+    } as ReferenceResponse)
+
+    const bee = new Bee(MOCK_SERVER_URL)
+    const reference = await bee.uploadFile(testBatchId, 'hello world', 'nice.txt')
+
+    expect(reference).toEqual(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        reference: testChunkEncryptedReference,
+        tagUid: 123,
+      }),
+    )
+
+    expect(() => reference.cid()).toThrow(TypeError)
   })
 
   describe('uploadData', () => {
@@ -896,11 +918,14 @@ describe('Bee class', () => {
 
       const reference = await bee.uploadFile(testBatchId, 'hello world', 'nice.txt', { encrypt: true })
 
-      expect(reference).toEqual({
-        cid: testJsonCid,
-        reference: testJsonHash,
-        tagUid: 123,
-      })
+      expect(reference).toEqual(
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          reference: testJsonHash,
+          tagUid: 123,
+        }),
+      )
+
+      expect(reference.cid()).toEqual(testJsonCid)
 
       expect(requestSpy.mock.calls.length).toEqual(1)
       expect(requestSpy.mock.calls[0].length).toEqual(1)
diff --git a/test/utils.ts b/test/utils.ts
index e4d72e6f..408b64a9 100644
--- a/test/utils.ts
+++ b/test/utils.ts
@@ -431,6 +431,8 @@ export const testChunkSpan = new Uint8Array([testChunkPayload.length, 0, 0, 0, 0
 export const testChunkData = new Uint8Array([...testChunkSpan, ...testChunkPayload])
 // the hash is hardcoded because we would need the bmt hasher otherwise
 export const testChunkHash = 'ca6357a08e317d15ec560fef34e4c45f8f19f01c372aa70f1da72bfa7f1a4338' as Reference
+export const testChunkEncryptedReference =
+  'ca6357a08e317d15ec560fef34e4c45f8f19f01c372aa70f1da72bfa7f1a4338ca6357a08e317d15ec560fef34e4c45f8f19f01c372aa70f1da72bfa7f1a4338' as Reference
 export const testAddress = 'ca6357a08e317d15ec560fef34e4c45f8f19f01c372aa70f1da72bfa7f1a4338' as Address
 export const testBatchId = 'ca6357a08e317d15ec560fef34e4c45f8f19f01c372aa70f1da72bfa7f1a4338' as BatchId