Interstitial ads freeze on iOS 26

[panstromek]

We get reports from users and confirmed ourselves that triggering Interstitial ad will cause the whole app to freeze. This seems to be one of many new issues that came with iOS 26 release. It's currently unclear whether there are some other conditions that have to be met.

It also seems like this might be happening only with production ad ids, which makes it tough to debug, but that's something we'll have to confirm.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

It should be enough to just trigger interstitial ad based on the tutorial in readme.

The screen where this happens in our case contains a <video> element, but we haven't yet confirmed whether that plays a role or not.

Smartphone:

• Device: iPhone
• OS: iOS
• Browser: Safari Webview
• Version 26

Additional context

We currently don't have enough bandwidth to investigate this issue in more detail. I'm opening this just to make sure this is at least reported somewhere and see if anybody also experienced this.

[rdlabo]

I’m not aware of this issue on my side, but if it is indeed happening, it may be difficult to resolve within this plugin.
Today I released v7.2.0, which updates to the latest AdMob iOS SDK, so please update to that version and try again first.
If the problem still persists, you may need to open an issue directly here:
https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-ios-examples