Can my submission be ran on iPhone?

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I am building my app for iPhone users generally, and realized that maybe I should have had the iPad in mind since I read somewhere that the submissions will be judged on iPad. Should I be testing and tweaking on iPad now or can it be somehow ran on iPhone?

Answered by DTS Engineer in 877478022

Right.

The submission form has two options:

Swift Playground 4.6 or later
Xcode 26 or later (with a note saying “Xcode app playgrounds are run in Simulator.”)

In the first case, your submission must necessarily be run on an iPad.

In the second, your submission will be run on the simulator, not a real device.

There are some caveats here:

In the first case, the Swift Playground app doesn’t yet include support for the iOS 26 SDK )-: See this thread.
In the second case, the form doesn’t currently say whether it’ll be an iPhone on iPad simulator. See this thread.

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Answer 1

Yashya OP

20h

@Simpson3568 I am not sure but as per my knowledge submissions created with swift playground can be run on ( or will be run on ) iPad, whereas playgrounds created using Xcode will be run on iOS simulator. For more clarity please read the swift student challenge page on apple developer's website.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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Right.

The submission form has two options:

Swift Playground 4.6 or later
Xcode 26 or later (with a note saying “Xcode app playgrounds are run in Simulator.”)

In the first case, your submission must necessarily be run on an iPad.

In the second, your submission will be run on the simulator, not a real device.

There are some caveats here:

In the first case, the Swift Playground app doesn’t yet include support for the iOS 26 SDK )-: See this thread.
In the second case, the form doesn’t currently say whether it’ll be an iPhone on iPad simulator. See this thread.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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Simpson3568 OP

4h

Thank you both for taking the time to answer me. :)

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