title: Firebase iOS stuck at 'Run your app to verify installation'
body: <p>React Native Firebase installation for iOS gets held up at the "Run your app to verify installation" screen. </p>
  
  <p>React Native Firebase has worked on Android for me before. </p>
  
  <p>I followed these instructions. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://rnfirebase.io/docs/v5.x.x/installation/ios" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rnfirebase.io/docs/v5.x.x/installation/ios</a>
  <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/ios/setup#add_the_sdk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://firebase.google.com/docs/ios/setup#add_the_sdk</a></p>
  
  <p>Here are what I've done so far. </p>
  
  <p>-Set up a project within Firebase.google.com page. </p>
  
  <p>-Create an iOS app there. </p>
  
  <p>-Install react-native-firebase via npm. </p>
  
  <p>-Add GoogleService-Info.plist file to the project within XCode.</p>
  
  <p>-Make changes to ios/[YOUR APP NAME]/AppDelegate.m file. </p>
  
  <p>-Creat a new Podfile (Cocoa pod) and updated it by "pod update" command. </p>
  
  <p>-Add and edited lines to the Podfile per the instruction. </p>
  
  <p>-Run "pod install" </p>
  
  <p>-Run "react-native link react-native-firebase" from the project root. </p>
  
  <p>-Click "Next" button within Firebase console and move on to "Run your app to verify installation" section. </p>
  
  <p>-Run the iOS app on simulator by running "react-native run-ios" command. </p>
  
  <p>The app boots up and functions as normal in the simulator. </p>
  
  <p>Nothing happens in the Firebase page. </p>
  
  <p>This is the first couple of lines of my Podfile. </p>
  
  <pre><code># Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your 
  project
  platform :ios, '9.0'
  
  # Required by RNFirebase
  pod 'Firebase/Core', '~&gt; 5.20.1'
  
  target 'My_App_Name' do
  </code></pre>