Firebase Apple 12.0.0

The Firebase Apple SDK (12.0.0) is now available. For more details, see
the Firebase Apple SDK release notes.

To install this SDK, see Add Firebase to your project.

What's Changed

• [Firebase AI] Update models used in integration tests by @andrewheard in #15007
• [Core] Remove Options.deepLinkURLScheme by @ncooke3 in #15006
• [DynamicLinks] Remove library and corresponding infra by @ncooke3 in #14978
• [Core] Remove Options.androidClientID and Options.trackingID by @ncooke3 in #15013
• [FirebaseAI] update the jump link in README.md for quickstart-ios by @YoungHypo in #15019
• Carthage 11.15.0 by @paulb777 in #15022
• Remove deprecated VertexAI by @paulb777 in #15027
• Version 12.0.0 by @paulb777 in #15025
• NOTICES Change by @github-actions[bot] in #15030
• [Infra] Stop including AdMob in zip builds by @ncooke3 in #15024
• [Firebase AI] Cleanup Vertex AI in Firebase references by @andrewheard in #15033
• [Infra] Bump podspec min. versions by @ncooke3 in #15015
• [Auth] Remove 'ActionCodeSettings.dynamicLinkDomain' by @ncooke3 in #15036
• [Infra] Bump to Xcode 16.4 on CI runners by @ncooke3 in #15034
• [Auth] Remove deprecated string-based provider ID APIs by @ncooke3 in #15037
• [Auth] Remove AuthErrorCodes '.dynamicLinkNotActivated' & '.invalidDynamicLinkDomain' by @ncooke3 in #15042
• Improve Real-time response Handling for Remote Config by @tusharkhandelwal8 in #15031
• Change iPadOS26 session background listener for session background by @themiswang in #15047
• [Infra] For SPM, defer to Xcode for supported platform versions by @ncooke3 in #15039
• [FIAM] Remove dep. warning by @ncooke3 in #15051
• [Infra] Use strict patch versions for internal podspec dependencies by @ncooke3 in #15049
• [Storage] Remove unused, long-deprecated 'StorageMetadata.storageReference' API` by @ncooke3 in #15057
• [Functions] Remove completion-handler based internal logic by @ncooke3 in #15058
• [Infra] Resolve Crashlytics C warnings by @ncooke3 in #15059
• [Auth] Remove wrapper API that uses deprecated Auth API by @ncooke3 in #15060
• [AI] Remove deprecated totalBillableCharacters property by @ncooke3 in #15056
• [Analytics] Remove deprecated subspecs/targets by @ncooke3 in #15061
• [Core] Cleanup unused core code by @ncooke3 in #14914
• [Infra] Bump swift-tools-version in Package.swift by @ncooke3 in #15026
• [Infra] Fix RC nightly failure by @ncooke3 in #15064
• [Auth] Synchronize 'TOTPSecret.openInOTPApp(withQRCodeURL:)' to main actor by @ncooke3 in #15067
• NOTICES Change by @github-actions[bot] in #15068
• [Infra] Fix build warning in performance tests by @ncooke3 in #15063
• [Infra] Improve error message for expired PAT in release workflows by @ncooke3 in #15070
• [Infra] Update release/prerelease workflows with new access tokens by @ncooke3 in #15069
• [Infra] Fix Firestore source build privacy manifest SPM warnings by @ncooke3 in #15076
• Create agents.md file for AI agent context by @ryanwilson in #14953
• [Infra] Install visionOS on runner only if it doesn't already exist by @ncooke3 in #15077
• [Auth] Reduce callback nesting by @ncooke3 in #15079
• [FirebaseAI] Add support for Grounding with Google Search by @dlarocque in #15014
• docs: fix bidirectional by @MojtabaHs in #15084
• [Infra] Clean up 'AtomicBox' usage in favor of 'FIRAllocatedUnfairLock' by @ncooke3 in #15082
• [Functions] Update HTTPSCallableOptions.swift by @ncooke3 in #15075
• [Infra] Add changelog versions for Firebase 12 by @ncooke3 in #15092
• [Infra] Rename 'FIRAllocatedUnfairLock' to 'UnfairLock' by @ncooke3 in #15090
• Analytics 12.0.0 by @htcgh in #15095
• [Infra] Update gtm-session-fetcher to ~> 3.4, < 6.0 by @ncooke3 in #15091
• [Infra] Sessions Xcode 26 beta warnings by @ncooke3 in #15100
• [Infra] Database Xcode 26 beta warnings by @ncooke3 in #15101
• [Infra] Firestore Xcode 26 beta warnings by @ncooke3 in #15102
• [Infra] Disable flaky integration tests by @ncooke3 in #15104
• [Infra] Update Package.swift by @ncooke3 in #15110
• Add release note export script by @morganchen12 in #15109

New Contributors

• @YoungHypo made their first contribution in #15019
• @dlarocque made their first contribution in #15014

Full Changelog: 11.15.0...12.0.0