diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.0.rst
index 96eed72823e72..f2b6f70a3138c 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.0.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Conversion
 
 Strings
 ^^^^^^^
+- Bug in :meth:`Series.__pos__` and :meth:`DataFrame.__pos__` did not raise for :class:`StringDtype` with ``storage="pyarrow"`` (:issue:`60710`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.rank` for :class:`StringDtype` with ``storage="pyarrow"`` incorrectly returning integer results in case of ``method="average"`` and raising an error if it would truncate results (:issue:`59768`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.replace` with :class:`StringDtype` when replacing with a non-string value was not upcasting to ``object`` dtype (:issue:`60282`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.str.replace` when ``n < 0`` for :class:`StringDtype` with ``storage="pyarrow"`` (:issue:`59628`)
diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py b/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py
index 27c1425d11ac6..d35083fd892a8 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py
@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ def _cmp_method(self, other, op):
                 return result.to_numpy(np.bool_, na_value=False)
         return result
 
+    def __pos__(self) -> Self:
+        raise TypeError(f"bad operand type for unary +: '{self.dtype}'")
+
 
 class ArrowStringArrayNumpySemantics(ArrowStringArray):
     _na_value = np.nan
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_unary.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_unary.py
index 217255e73b450..652f52bd226af 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_unary.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_unary.py
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
-from pandas.compat import HAS_PYARROW
 from pandas.compat.numpy import np_version_gte1p25
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -122,9 +119,6 @@ def test_pos_object(self, df_data):
         tm.assert_frame_equal(+df, df)
         tm.assert_series_equal(+df["a"], df["a"])
 
-    @pytest.mark.xfail(
-        using_string_dtype() and HAS_PYARROW, reason="TODO(infer_string)"
-    )
     @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:Applying:DeprecationWarning")
     def test_pos_object_raises(self):
         # GH#21380