diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/native-image/advanced-topics.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/native-image/advanced-topics.adoc
index 285758ebe009..a7e8f11169d7 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/native-image/advanced-topics.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/native-image/advanced-topics.adoc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 [[native-image.advanced.nested-configuration-properties]]
 === Nested Configuration Properties
 Reflection hints are automatically created for configuration properties by the Spring ahead-of-time engine.
-Nested configuration properties, however, *must* be annotated with `@NestedConfigurationProperty`, otherwise they won't be detected and will not be bindable.
+Nested configuration properties which are no inner classes, however, *must* be annotated with `@NestedConfigurationProperty`, otherwise they won't be detected and will not be bindable.
 
 include::code:MyProperties[]
 
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/docs/nativeimage/advanced/nestedconfigurationproperties/MyProperties.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/docs/nativeimage/advanced/nestedconfigurationproperties/MyProperties.java
index f4d064e05ffd..0f73ef5dd68c 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/docs/nativeimage/advanced/nestedconfigurationproperties/MyProperties.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/docs/nativeimage/advanced/nestedconfigurationproperties/MyProperties.java
@@ -41,20 +41,20 @@ public Nested getNested() {
 	}
 	// @fold:off
 
-	public static class Nested {
+}
 
-		private int number;
+class Nested {
 
-		// @fold:on // getters / setters...
-		public int getNumber() {
-			return this.number;
-		}
+	private int number;
 
-		public void setNumber(int number) {
-			this.number = number;
-		}
-		// @fold:off
+	// @fold:on // getters / setters...
+	public int getNumber() {
+		return this.number;
+	}
 
+	public void setNumber(int number) {
+		this.number = number;
 	}
+	// @fold:off
 
 }