diff --git a/FirebaseMessaging/Sources/FIRMessagingRmqManager.m b/FirebaseMessaging/Sources/FIRMessagingRmqManager.m
index ad66dcea2ce..f9e38726b6e 100644
--- a/FirebaseMessaging/Sources/FIRMessagingRmqManager.m
+++ b/FirebaseMessaging/Sources/FIRMessagingRmqManager.m
@@ -490,9 +490,11 @@ - (void)openDatabase {
     BOOL didOpenDatabase = YES;
     if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:path]) {
       // We've to separate between different versions here because of backwards compatbility issues.
-      int result = sqlite3_open_v2(
-          [path UTF8String], &self -> _database,
-          SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE | SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE | SQLITE_OPEN_FILEPROTECTION_NONE, NULL);
+          int flags = SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE | SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE;
+#ifdef SQLITE_OPEN_FILEPROTECTION_NONE
+          flags |= SQLITE_OPEN_FILEPROTECTION_NONE;
+#endif
+          int result = sqlite3_open_v2([path UTF8String], &self -> _database, flags, NULL);
       if (result != SQLITE_OK) {
         NSString *errorString = FIRMessagingStringFromSQLiteResult(result);
         NSString *errorMessage = [NSString