Xcode 7 b 6 upgrade to recommended settings issue

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Created Aug ’15

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On Xcode 7 b 6, if you open a project created in Xcode 6 with a Watch OS1 app, then select update to recommneded settings, it will convert the Watch OS1 app into a Watch OS 2 app.

This didn't seem to happen on previous betas. I didn't notice this was listed in the list of changes that Xcode was going to perform on a project today, and now I have some Watch OS2 apps that I'd like to revert back to Watch OS 1 apps.

Is there a step by step process to revert a converted Watch OS 2 target back into a Watch OS 1 target?

And, I filed a bug report about this (22447746) because I don't think this is really the ideal process. At least initially, you are still going to have to support OS1 to some extent, so you don't want to delete the old OS 1 target. But, it might be convenient to duplicate the Watch OS1 target and convert the duplicate to Watch OS2.

But, back to the original big question: how do I revert the OS 2 target to OS 1? I'd prefer to not have to recreate all the Watch OS1 targets if possible.

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hacknicity OP

Aug ’15

I don't know if it was in all the previous betas, but the offer to convert watchOS 1 to 2 was definitely there before, because I used it. Like you, I'm wondering if that was a mistake (despite Xcode pretty strongly suggesting this was the right thing to do) because of backward compatibility.

Supporting both watchOS 1 and 2 could be quite tricky depending on the app so I really don't want to have to support the old version. I'm not sure if Apple will even allow us to release a new version of an app that used to have a watchOS 1 target that now only has watchOS 2. We're effectively removing something that used to work, and that might be a reason for rejection. I don't expect many people will stay on watchOS 1 so it would feel like a lot of wasted effort to have to keep supporting that.

Anyway, to answer your question, you convert back to watchOS 1 by going back to an earlier version in your source code repository (git/Mercurial/SVN) and then add a new watchOS 2 target. You are using source code contol, right???!!!

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