I have developed a new iOS application (it supports iOS6 and older versions). It has been tested in iPhone4 and iPhone5, both work perfectly.
When uploading the application to the AppStore, Apple is asking me to provide screenshots for iPad. The problem is that I haven't tested the application in iPad as I don't want it to be used there. Is it possible to specify somewhere that the application is not iPad supported? Will I still have to provide the iPad screenshots when uploading the application?
Thank you,
skull
In Xcode you can specify which devices your application will work with before submitting it to the store.
In the project build window you can specify what platform it works on in the device family field.
If set to iphone it will not publish to ipad
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I developed an app that only runs on iPhone (iPad compatibility not required yet by me). After I publish it to the app store, the apple rejects the app as they test it on iPad and as I mention that it is only iPhone app, therefore, it looks ugly on iPad.
How could I submit it to app store by force apply the setting that it is an iPhone app only, not iPad?
This creates really much issue as I worked a lot and seeing this rejection made my heartbreak.
Apple have stated in their app-store guide lines that iPhone apps should run on iPad. Unless there is some really special need otherwise, which you must be able reason with them.
Check here: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
In addition to that it is really easy to make iPhone application compatible in most of the cases, just try and run it once on iPad device( or simulator), and you might find the crash and be able to fix that easy.
We have a app that was submitted as a universal app with support for all devices iPad and iPhone but we no longer want it to show in the store as a iPad app we want it to just be a iPhone only app.
This app was built with Appcelerator so i have changed the app tiapp.xml details to only support iPhone no longer universal, but it will not submitted to the store.
I can't upload the existing app because the family group in the bundle Id. it won't accept removing the iPad.
How can we remove the app from being listed as a iPad app really important as the app was not built with iPad in mind it would be fine if it was just a scaled up version of the app.
Any help please?
Developers who wish to issue updates, but remove device support, have
three choices:
Fix their app so that it can work on the devices they originally set
out to support. Target a newer version of iOS that requires a newer
device. Remove their app from the store, and upload the new app with a
different bundle ID.
I have AppA v.1.0 that supports iPhones and iPads. I have a new update for it AppA v.2.0, for which the iPad design is ready but the iPhone's design is not. I need to launch it asap only for iPads. I don't want to create a separate application.
So what I want is to provide AppA v.1.0 for mobiles and AppA v.2.0 for iPads.
First of all you cannot do that.
If you remove iPhone support you will most likely get a rejection of your binary
This bundle does not support one or more of the devices supported by
the previous app version. Your app update must continue to support all
devices previously supported. You declare supported devices in Xcode
with the Targeted Device Family build setting. Refer to QA1623 for
additional
information:https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1623/_index.html
Secondly if somehow you could do it then if you have AppA v1.0 and release AppA v2.0 then 1.0 is not available anymore to anyone on App Store and v2.0 becomes the released version. What that means for your NEW iPhone users is that if they search for your app name on their device they will see no search results returned. On iPad it will be shown. Again your two options are
Make a universal app and support both iPhone and iPad. If you got most of the code working for iPad then making it work for iPhone isn't that big leap.
Make a new app for iPad only.
I'm a beginner programmer and I have a universal application that works perfectly on iPhone and iPad with IOS 6.0 and up. However, it has certain features which cannot run on an iPad 1 because this device can only upgrade up to IOS 5.1.1. Whenever I run on an iPad 5.1 simulator, the application crashes. This is not the problem since I already expect it to do that.
Will Apple reject my application since it does not run on the iPad 1? Are there other iPad applications that leave out iPad 1's?
Of course not! Obviously, Apple thinks iPad 1 owners should just buy new iPads. :)
BTW, you should check out Apple's page on the approval process
, especially their approval guidelines for information on what they are looking for in an app submission.
No, they will not. So long as your app is supported on the latest iOS version, they will not reject your app for not supporting older devices. If your app has additional hardware requirements that the latest OS does not, be sure to clearly specify this in your app description.
We have an iPhone app and want it to support iPad also.
But as I learned if you submit an app to Apple and indicate it is Universal, while in reality it is not (for example iPad is not supported at the time of submission, this is restricted by their policy).
So, what is the best way that we simultaneously allow further development of our application such that we also support iPad?
ps: we didn't want to create separate projects for iPad and iPhone since they share lot of code, but as I mentioned we encountered following obstacles.
Submit your app as an iPhone app. When you support iPad change it to a universal app when you submit your update.