xamarin-ios is being deprecated 2025-08-20

[jamescrosswell]

Description

@jpnurmi flagged this from our build logs, which we will need to address before the deadline:

$ brew install --cask xamarin-ios
Warning: xamarin-ios has been deprecated because it is discontinued upstream! It will be disabled on 2025-08-20.
==> Downloading https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/ceb0ea3f-4db8-46b4-8dc3-8049d27c0107/3960868aa9b1946a6c77668c3f3334ee/xamarin.ios-16.4.0.23.pkg
##################################################################################################################################################################################### 100.0%
==> Installing Cask xamarin-ios
==> Running installer for xamarin-ios with sudo; the password may be necessary.
Password:
installer: Package name is Xamarin.iOS
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
🍺  xamarin-ios was successfully installed!

Related

Similar issue (and workaround) here:

• [BUG]: Error: Download failed on Cask 'xamarin-android' with message: Download failed: https://dl.xamarin.com/MonoforAndroid/Mac/xamarin.android-13.2.2.0.pkg microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#20821

[linear]

NET-388 xamarin-ios is being deprecated 2025-08-20