
Firebase 13 for iOS Requires Xcode 26.2 and Renames the AI Module
Check your Xcode version, AI Logic imports and deep-link handling before bumping to Firebase iOS SDK 13, which drops CocoaPods and raises iOS to 15.
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Check your Xcode version, AI Logic imports and deep-link handling before bumping to Firebase iOS SDK 13, which drops CocoaPods and raises iOS to 15.

Google's postmortem says a 2-line flag cleanup crashed iOS apps for 2 hours 11 minutes, while status pages stayed green. An SDK patch is promised within a week.

A bad Firebase Analytics config payload crashed iOS apps on launch Sept. 28-29. Google says the fix is server-side, but the SDK still can't survive it.

Firebase's Admin SDKs finished shipping App Check replay protection, but a FlutterFire bug stops iOS and macOS from getting the short-lived tokens it needs.

Firebase App Check added reCAPTCHA Enterprise as an attestation option for Android, Apple platforms and Flutter, matching the option web apps already had.

Firebase stops publishing new Apple SDK versions to CocoaPods in October 2026, ahead of CocoaPods trunk going read-only in December. Migrate to SPM.

Apple opened Foundation Models to cloud AI providers at WWDC 2026. Firebase AI Logic is now the Gemini entry point for iOS 27, in preview.