diff --git a/packages/remote-config/e2e/config.e2e.js b/packages/remote-config/e2e/config.e2e.js
index 311a6984ee..b28613e51a 100644
--- a/packages/remote-config/e2e/config.e2e.js
+++ b/packages/remote-config/e2e/config.e2e.js
@@ -59,6 +59,82 @@ describe('remoteConfig()', function () {
         const { getRemoteConfig, fetchAndActivate } = remoteConfigModular;
         (await fetchAndActivate(getRemoteConfig())).should.be.a.Boolean();
       });
+
+      // Regression test for https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/7779
+      // On iOS, fetchAndActivate() used to always resolve `true` whenever the underlying fetch
+      // succeeded, even when the fetched values were identical to what was already active
+      // (i.e. nothing new was actually activated). This must be consistent with fetch() + activate(),
+      // and with the boolean returned by activate() itself, on both platforms.
+      it('returns false when there is nothing new to activate', async function () {
+        const { getRemoteConfig, fetchAndActivate } = remoteConfigModular;
+        const remoteConfig = getRemoteConfig();
+        remoteConfig.settings = { minimumFetchIntervalMillis: 0 };
+
+        // Make sure the current remote values are fetched + activated first.
+        await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig);
+
+        // Calling again immediately with no server-side template changes must not report
+        // that anything was activated, matching fetch() + activate() and matching Android.
+        const activatedAgain = await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig);
+        activatedAgain.should.equal(false);
+      });
+
+      it('is consistent with fetch() followed by activate()', async function () {
+        const { getRemoteConfig, fetchConfig, fetchAndActivate, activate } = remoteConfigModular;
+        const remoteConfig = getRemoteConfig();
+        remoteConfig.settings = { minimumFetchIntervalMillis: 0 };
+
+        // Get into a known "fully activated, no pending changes" state.
+        await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig);
+
+        // With no new remote values, fetch() + activate() should report nothing changed...
+        await fetchConfig(remoteConfig);
+        const activatedViaSeparateCalls = await activate(remoteConfig);
+        activatedViaSeparateCalls.should.equal(false);
+
+        // ...and fetchAndActivate() must agree.
+        const activatedViaFetchAndActivate = await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig);
+        activatedViaFetchAndActivate.should.equal(activatedViaSeparateCalls);
+      });
+
+      it('returns true only once new remote values have actually been fetched and activated', async function () {
+        const { getRemoteConfig, fetchAndActivate, getValue } = remoteConfigModular;
+        const remoteConfig = getRemoteConfig();
+        remoteConfig.settings = { minimumFetchIntervalMillis: 0 };
+        const paramName = 'fetchAndActivateTest' + Date.now();
+        const paramValue = 'value' + Date.now();
+
+        // Get into a known "fully activated, no pending changes" state first.
+        await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig);
+        (await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig)).should.equal(false);
+
+        try {
+          const response = await FirebaseHelpers.updateRemoteConfigTemplate({
+            operations: { add: [{ name: paramName, value: paramValue }] },
+          });
+          should(response.result !== undefined).equal(true, 'response result not defined');
+
+          // A newly published template can take a little while to propagate to the fetch
+          // backend, so poll fetchAndActivate() until it reports the new value was activated,
+          // rather than asserting on the very next call.
+          let activated = false;
+          const deadline = Date.now() + 60000;
+          while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+            activated = await fetchAndActivate(remoteConfig);
+            if (activated && getValue(remoteConfig, paramName).asString() === paramValue) {
+              break;
+            }
+            await Utils.sleep(2000);
+          }
+
+          activated.should.equal(true);
+          getValue(remoteConfig, paramName).asString().should.equal(paramValue);
+        } finally {
+          await FirebaseHelpers.updateRemoteConfigTemplate({
+            operations: { delete: [paramName] },
+          });
+        }
+      });
     });
 
     describe('activate()', function () {
diff --git a/packages/remote-config/ios/RNFBConfig/RNFBConfigModule.mm b/packages/remote-config/ios/RNFBConfig/RNFBConfigModule.mm
index dfbaffec67..2c49a98ed1 100644
--- a/packages/remote-config/ios/RNFBConfig/RNFBConfigModule.mm
+++ b/packages/remote-config/ios/RNFBConfig/RNFBConfigModule.mm
@@ -191,27 +191,57 @@ - (void)fetch:(NSString *)appName
 - (void)fetchAndActivate:(NSString *)appName
                  resolve:(RCTPromiseResolveBlock)resolve
                   reject:(RCTPromiseRejectBlock)reject {
+  // NOTE: We deliberately do not use `-[FIRRemoteConfig fetchAndActivateWithCompletionHandler:]`
+  // here. Its `FIRRemoteConfigFetchAndActivateStatus` result only reflects whether the fetch
+  // succeeded (`SuccessFetchedFromRemote`) vs fell back to previously fetched data
+  // (`SuccessUsingPreFetchedData`) - it does NOT reflect whether activation actually changed any
+  // config values, so it reports `SuccessFetchedFromRemote` (=> we'd resolve `true`) even when the
+  // fetched values are identical to what's already active. See
+  // https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/7779
+  //
+  // Instead we perform the fetch + activate ourselves and resolve with the `changed` BOOL from
+  // `activateWithCompletion:`, which matches the semantics of our own `activate()` method as well
+  // as the Android implementation, both of which resolve `true` only when activation changed the
+  // in-use config values.
   FIRApp *firebaseApp = firebaseAppForName(appName);
-  FIRRemoteConfigFetchAndActivateCompletion completionHandler =
-      ^(FIRRemoteConfigFetchAndActivateStatus status, NSError *__nullable error) {
-        if (error) {
-          if (error.userInfo && error.userInfo[@"ActivationFailureReason"] != nil &&
-              [error.userInfo[@"ActivationFailureReason"] containsString:@"already activated"]) {
-            resolve([self resultWithConstants:@([RCTConvert BOOL:@(YES)]) firebaseApp:firebaseApp]);
-          } else {
-            [RNFBSharedUtils rejectPromiseWithNSError:reject error:error];
+  __weak RNFBConfigModule *weakSelf = self;
+  FIRRemoteConfigFetchCompletion fetchCompletion = ^(FIRRemoteConfigFetchStatus status,
+                                                     NSError *__nullable error) {
+    RNFBConfigModule *strongSelf = weakSelf;
+    if (!strongSelf) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (error) {
+      [RNFBSharedUtils
+          rejectPromiseWithUserInfo:reject
+                           userInfo:[@{
+                             @"code" : convertFIRRemoteConfigFetchStatusToNSString(status),
+                             @"message" :
+                                 convertFIRRemoteConfigFetchStatusToNSStringDescription(status)
+                           } mutableCopy]];
+      return;
+    }
+
+    [[FIRRemoteConfig remoteConfigWithApp:firebaseApp]
+        activateWithCompletion:^(BOOL changed, NSError *_Nullable activateError) {
+          if (!activateError) {
+            resolve([strongSelf resultWithConstants:@([RCTConvert BOOL:@(changed)])
+                                        firebaseApp:firebaseApp]);
+            return;
           }
-        } else {
-          if (status == FIRRemoteConfigFetchAndActivateStatusSuccessFetchedFromRemote) {
-            resolve([self resultWithConstants:@([RCTConvert BOOL:@(YES)]) firebaseApp:firebaseApp]);
+          if (activateError.userInfo && activateError.userInfo[@"ActivationFailureReason"] != nil &&
+              [activateError.userInfo[@"ActivationFailureReason"]
+                  containsString:@"already activated"]) {
+            resolve([strongSelf resultWithConstants:@([RCTConvert BOOL:@(NO)])
+                                        firebaseApp:firebaseApp]);
             return;
           }
-          resolve([self resultWithConstants:@([RCTConvert BOOL:@(NO)]) firebaseApp:firebaseApp]);
-        }
-      };
+          [RNFBSharedUtils rejectPromiseWithNSError:reject error:activateError];
+        }];
+  };
 
-  [[FIRRemoteConfig remoteConfigWithApp:firebaseApp]
-      fetchAndActivateWithCompletionHandler:completionHandler];
+  [[FIRRemoteConfig remoteConfigWithApp:firebaseApp] fetchWithCompletionHandler:fetchCompletion];
 }
 
 - (void)activate:(NSString *)appName