Hi, My problem is, an existing app is broken for ios 5.1.1 with the last update. Because iPad 1 is limited to go no further than iOS 5.1.1, users with iPad 1 cannot simply upgrade iOS to solve the problem. Is there a way I can deploy the app to iPad 1 (iOS 5.1.1) using Xcode 7 any more.
Thanks in advance
I have a business using a ton of iPad 1s with my app, and I definitely need to be able to deploy updates. I sure hope this is mistake.
xCode 7 lowest deployment target is iOS 6. This is because, 64bit slices are required
now and prior to iOS 6 the mechanism for delivering them did not exist. If you must support
such old hardware, you will have to use the older tools while they still work. You should
be advising your users now, that the hardware will not be supported in future.
Also of importance here, armv6 has not been supported for quite some time and it is required
for iPad 1.
I downgraded to XCode 6.4 and now it won't let me build to the iPad 1 either. Any ideas?
Are you setting the deployment target to 5 or lower? Also, iOS 5.1 doesn't know how to deal
with 64bit slices so, your code shouldn't contain 64bit code which of course means it cannot
be deployed on the app store.
I have the deployment target set correctly. The project is exactly the same, and it build fine with XCode 6.4 before I tried installing XCode 7. Previously I had XCode 6.4 installed with the XCode 7 beta and everything was working fine. So there's no longer any way to deploy software updates to iPad 1s?
I got it building again to my iPad 1 again using XCode 6.4, and I was actually able to submit the build to the app store. Enabling arm64 was required for the App Store as you said, but it still ran fine on the iPad 1 with arm64 enabled.
To fix the problem where XCode 6.4 wouldn't build to my iPad 1 anymore after installing XCode 7: I had to right click on the iPad 1 in Devices, and select "Show in Run Destinations Menu" which had been disabled by XCode 7. I also had to re-clone my project from git to another location in order to resolve another weird XCode error where the build failed without any error message.
