This is now solved with Xcode 13.1

OOPer to answer your question, a little bit more on the context: stringUrl can be an actual string URL as "https://developer.apple.com/", I've tested with this exact URL and it also fails as with any correctly formatted URL I'm allowing arbitrary loads This is my Podfile: platform :ios, '11.0' pod 'Alamofire' def common_pods # Pods for #### pod 'ObjectMapper' pod 'MaterialComponents/TextFields' pod 'Stripe' pod 'SVProgressHUD' pod 'BEMCheckBox' pod 'CropViewController' pod 'BulletinBoard' pod 'SDWebImage' pod 'Firebase/Analytics' pod 'Firebase/Messaging' pod 'Firebase/Crashlytics' pod 'SendBirdUIKit' pod 'IQKeyboardManagerSwift' pod 'LaunchDarkly', '~> 5.4' end target '####' do # Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks use_frameworks! # Pods for #### prod common_pods end post_install do |installer| installer.pods_project.build_configurations.each do |config| config.build_settings["EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]"] = "arm64" config.build_settings["ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH"] = "NO" end installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target| target.build_configurations.each do |config| config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = '11.0' end end end