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  There are few moments more frustrating in mobile development than a Flutter project that compiles perfectly on Android but refuses to build on iOS. If you have recently added  firebase_core ,  firebase_auth , or  cloud_firestore  to your  pubspec.yaml , you are likely staring at a wall of red text in Xcode or your terminal. The error usually manifests as  Module 'firebase_core' not found ,  ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 , or a cryptic CocoaPods version mismatch regarding  IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET . This is not a problem with your code logic. It is a dependency management conflict between Flutter’s build system, CocoaPods, and the evolving requirements of the Firebase iOS SDKs. This guide provides a rigorous root cause analysis and a definitive, copy-paste solution to align your build targets and fix the CocoaPods integration. The Root Cause: Deployment Target Drift and Linkage To solve this permanently, we must understan...