We, (the registered Apple Developer, let us say Organisation X with team ID A1B2C3D4E) have two apps, let us call them A and B (bundle IDs com.organisation.project.appa and com.organisation.project.appb respectively).
A has both an iOS and a tvOS version.
B presently has an iOS version only.
App A has Universal Search for Apple's TV app implemented and it works fine.
We want to migrate our users from A to B over a few months' time with both apps being available to users.
We want Universal Search to work with app B as-well and are preparing the requisite feeds for it.
As per Apple's developer documentation, we must have our app ready on both iOS and tvOS.
However, we would like to use app A's tvOS version on, well, tvOS, instead of developing a new tvOS extension for app B.
So, if a user is on iOS, they are taken to app B when searching within Apple's TV app. But when they are on tvOS, they are taken to app A from the TV app search results.
If we update our feeds such that the iOS deeplinks point to app B and tvOS deeplinks point to app A, would this approach work, as-in, will Apple allow this?
Another question is that is the assumption that 'in this situation (two apps from one developer working in unison for Universal Search functionality) we will need to have a single feed as it seems to be mapped to the team ID and not the app', correct?