diff --git a/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/lib/firebase_storage.dart b/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/lib/firebase_storage.dart
index e51e882d8b2e..1e6a7b988a6a 100755
--- a/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/lib/firebase_storage.dart
+++ b/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/lib/firebase_storage.dart
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@ library firebase_storage;
 
 import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:convert' show utf8, base64;
-import 'dart:io' show File;
-// TODO(Lyokone): remove once we bump Flutter SDK min version to 3.3
-// ignore: unnecessary_import
-import 'dart:typed_data' show Uint8List;
 
 // import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:firebase_core/firebase_core.dart';
@@ -18,6 +14,7 @@ import 'package:firebase_core_platform_interface/firebase_core_platform_interfac
     show FirebasePluginPlatform;
 import 'package:firebase_storage_platform_interface/firebase_storage_platform_interface.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:universal_io/io.dart' show File;
 
 import 'src/utils.dart';
 
diff --git a/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/pubspec.yaml b/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/pubspec.yaml
index f99e3a471172..2f3925389c55 100755
--- a/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/firebase_storage/firebase_storage/pubspec.yaml
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ dependencies:
   firebase_storage_web: ^3.10.3
   flutter:
     sdk: flutter
+  # Used to expose File even when web isn't supported
+  universal_io: ^2.2.2
 
 dev_dependencies:
   flutter_test: