Cordova iOS 8.1.0 is now available!

By: Niklas Merz

31 May 2026

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova iOS 8.1.0! This is one of Cordova's supported platforms for building iOS applications.

This release contains fixes for several bugs that were reported against the 8.0.1 version.

To upgrade:

cordova platform remove ios
cordova platform add ios@8.1.0

To install:

cordova platform add ios@8.1.0

Release Highlights

Fix for Ionic WebView plugin

Re-add an implementation of the deprecated shouldOverrideLoadWithRequest:navigationType: selector because the Ionic WebView plugin relies on it.
Fix /_app_file_/ URLs not working

During refactoring of the URLSchemeTask handler for cordova-ios 8, an error was introduced where /_app_file_ URLs were treated as being relative to the resources directory rather than as filesystem paths.
Fixes various build issues

Fixes:

GH-1653 fix(actions): fix CDVURLSchemeHandlerTest warnings
GH-1652 fix(actions): IPhone 16e not found on macOS 26 for latest OS
GH-1640 fix: NSInternalInconsistencyException: "No response has been sent for this task" - second attempt
GH-1637 fix(build): Target a generic iOS simulator for building
GH-1632 fix(ionic): Add workaround for Ionic WebView plugin
GH-1618 fix(xcode): Fix library search paths for target
GH-1621 fix(xcode): Ensure we do NFD normalization on PRODUCT_NAME
GH-1616 fix(spm): Ensure the deployment target always gets set
GH-1606 fix(webview): Ensure scheme task is always finished
GH-1610 fix(scheme): Fix /app_file/ URLs not working
GH-1612 fix(spm): Set deployment target in Package.swift
GH-1597 fix: ignore spm build artifacts

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