Please specify "higher minimum deployment target" dependency

Question

I installed Flutter 3.16.0 SDK and started installing necessary packages like connectivity_plus after configuring it when i tried to run the app on iPhone i got this issue:

[!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "connectivity_plus":
  In Podfile:
    connectivity_plus (from `.symlinks/plugins/connectivity_plus/ios`)

Specs satisfying the `connectivity_plus (from `.symlinks/plugins/connectivity_plus/ios`)` dependency were found, but they required a higher minimum deployment target.

Answer 1

After trying couple of things like it did not worked.

• flutter clean
• rm -rf Podfile.lock
• rm -rf Pods
• pod install --repo-update
• Updating Podfile and setting platform :ios, '8.0' or 9.0 or 10.0 or 11.0

I started to worry but then I read the error carefully and started to understand it word by word and i got it that the package that is giving me error have it's minimum platform version which does not match with my platform version in Podfile and at this point I don't know what's the package minimum platform version and then I got hint from this part of the error

Specs satisfying the `connectivity_plus (from `.symlinks/plugins/connectivity_plus/ios`)` dependency were found, but they required a higher minimum deployment target.

So went ahead and opened the ios/.symlinks/plugins/connectivity_plus/ios/connectivity_plus.podspec file and saw it has this s.platform = :ios, '12.0' defined in it so i got my answer that this is the minimum platform version i should be using in my Podfile.

TLDR Check your Podfile and look for this line platform :ios, and whatever comes after is the minimum version in my case I tried 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 and 11.0 but it still did not solved my issue so i opened the package podspec file which should be located at ios/.symlinks/plugins/package_name/ios/package_name.podspec and from there check what's the minimum version and use the same minimum version in your Podfile

That's it happy ending 😅