CocoaPods goes read-only: what changes and when

The CocoaPods team plans to reject every new Podspec at the server and archive the CocoaPods/Specs repo on GitHub. The Specs repo and its CDN keep serving existing pods, so pod install on a project that already resolves will keep working, and your shipped builds are unaffected. What stops is new pods and new versions through trunk, which means no more security fixes or SDK updates for dependencies that only ship there. Private spec repos, and dependencies you vendor yourself or pull from npm, aren’t affected. The team says the date could move later within reason, but not earlier.

Firebase: 12.19.0 was the final planned 12.x minor and the final scheduled CocoaPods release; 13.0 and later come only through Swift Package Manager and the binary zip. Existing Firebase pods keep working. This also affects FlutterFire and the Firebase Unity and C++ SDKs. Flutter: the 3.47 release calls CocoaPods maintenance mode and says plugins that don’t move to Swift Package Manager will eventually stop working; 92 of the top 100 iOS plugins have moved, and flutter config --enable-swift-package-manager turns SwiftPM back on if you disabled it, see Flutter 3.47. React Native: CocoaPods is still the default; 0.87 added experimental SwiftPM support that the team says isn’t ready for production, see React Native 0.87. CocoaPods notes that most React Native libraries come from npm rather than trunk.

Firebase’s migration guide gives the general path. First check that every dependency supports Swift Package Manager; if some don’t, Firebase suggests its manual XCFramework install rather than mixing CocoaPods and SwiftPM in one target, which can cause dependency cycles and build errors. Then, with Xcode closed, run pod deintegrate and delete the generated .xcworkspace. Open the .xcodeproj, add each package with File > Add Package Dependencies, and pick libraries for your target under Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content. Projects that rely on CocoaPods install scripts or custom configurations need extra work. With the 27 SDKs required from April 2027, see Xcode 27 requirements for the other changes to plan alongside.

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