Wanting to move to IOS10 only

[Rob Willett]

Hi,

We're looking at the % usage of IOS 8, 9 and 10. Its clear that IOS 10 is now the dominant version of IOS and IOS 8 is pretty much dead, even IOS 9 is down to 16%.

All our apps until now have supported IOS 8 on newer, but there's some new stuff in IOS 10 (local notifications) that means supporting IOS 8 and 9 is becoming more and more cumbersome. Also Push notifications (for us) work differently for IOS 8 and 9 vs IOS 10. Its becoming hard work to support all the different versions of IOS and Android.

We are nervous of just changing the IOS minimum version to IOS10 in Xcode as we are unclear as to what might/will/might not happen. 

We have a recollection that Apple simply won't let us change the IOS minimum version for an app, but we can't find any docs on this. 

So has anybody done this, simply moved to a higher level of IOS and decided not to support older versions? Were there any issues with Apple? 

Any advice or guidance welcomed,

Thanks

Rob

[Pete]

Our goal is to support > 90% of a platforms devices. Having said that, we've not supported iOS 8 in over a year and never had a request or complaint. We do have to support iOS 9 but as soon as 10.x crosses that 90% threshold, we'll drop support for 9.x. Of course, our apps are business apps so our users are generally on newer devices.

[jcesarmobile]

Apple won't mind if you increase the min to iOS 10. In fact, they want people to move fast to the latest version and usually promote apps using the new features.
They allow you to provide the current app supporting iOS 8 to users that don't have iOS 10, but it's up to you to do it or not.

[Rob Willett]

Thanks for the information from everyone. 

That's the sort of thing we're after. 

Rob

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 at 22:52, jcesarmobile <jcesar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Apple won't mind if you increase the min to iOS 10. In fact, they want people to move fast to the latest version and usually promote apps using the new features.
They allow you to provide the current app supporting iOS 8 to users that don't have iOS 10, but it's up to you to do it or not.

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