diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c
index aa3560ec0779..36db28b9099f 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c
@@ -785,6 +785,16 @@ static int xadc_preenable(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 
+	/*
+	 * In simultaneous mode the upper and lower aux channels are samples at
+	 * the same time. In this mode the upper 8 bits in the sequencer
+	 * register are don't care and the lower 8 bits control two channels
+	 * each. As such we must set the bit if either the channel in the lower
+	 * group or the upper group is enabled.
+	 */
+	if (seq_mode == XADC_CONF1_SEQ_SIMULTANEOUS)
+		scan_mask = ((scan_mask >> 8) | scan_mask) & 0xff0000;
+
 	ret = xadc_write_adc_reg(xadc, XADC_REG_SEQ(1), scan_mask >> 16);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;