diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 53b8a52e1..9f23dfc5e 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ repos:
         name: mypy-storage
         additional_dependencies:
         - aiohttp
-        - gcloud-aio-auth>=5.3.0
+        - gcloud-aio-auth>=5.3.2
         - rsa
         - types-aiofiles
         - types-requests
diff --git a/storage/gcloud/aio/storage/storage.py b/storage/gcloud/aio/storage/storage.py
index 492dae456..b75fc6c15 100644
--- a/storage/gcloud/aio/storage/storage.py
+++ b/storage/gcloud/aio/storage/storage.py
@@ -591,12 +591,14 @@ async def _download(
         # aiohttp and requests automatically decompress the body if this
         # argument is not passed. We assume that if the Accept-Encoding header
         # is present, then the client will handle the decompression
-        auto_decompress = 'accept-encoding' not in {k.lower() for k in headers}
+        auto_decompress = None  # inherit the Session default setting
+        if 'accept-encoding' not in {k.lower() for k in headers}:
+            auto_decompress = False
 
         s = AioSession(session) if session else self.session
 
         data: bytes
-        if not auto_decompress and BUILD_GCLOUD_REST:
+        if auto_decompress is False and BUILD_GCLOUD_REST:
             # Requests lib has a different way of reading compressed data. We
             # must pass the stream=True argument and read the response using
             # the 'raw' property.
diff --git a/storage/poetry.lock b/storage/poetry.lock
index e87f4b794..472b9ebfc 100644
--- a/storage/poetry.lock
+++ b/storage/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.7.1 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.2 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiofiles"
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "gcloud-aio-auth"
-version = "5.3.0"
+version = "5.3.1"
 description = "Python Client for Google Cloud Auth"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">= 3.8, < 4.0"
diff --git a/storage/poetry.rest.lock b/storage/poetry.rest.lock
index faf3d22b7..bf5a4cc1d 100644
--- a/storage/poetry.rest.lock
+++ b/storage/poetry.rest.lock
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ test = ["pytest (>=6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "gcloud-rest-auth"
-version = "5.3.0"
+version = "5.3.1"
 description = "Python Client for Google Cloud Auth"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">= 3.8, < 4.0"
diff --git a/storage/pyproject.rest.toml b/storage/pyproject.rest.toml
index cb5f65235..ca4d95ead 100644
--- a/storage/pyproject.rest.toml
+++ b/storage/pyproject.rest.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "gcloud-rest-storage"
-version = "9.3.0"
+version = "9.3.1"
 description = "Python Client for Google Cloud Storage"
 readme = "README.rst"
 
diff --git a/storage/pyproject.toml b/storage/pyproject.toml
index 0b9db8ad4..8bb062c07 100644
--- a/storage/pyproject.toml
+++ b/storage/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "gcloud-aio-storage"
-version = "9.3.0"
+version = "9.3.1"
 description = "Python Client for Google Cloud Storage"
 readme = "README.rst"