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  • Anders Borumpalmin@mastodon.social
    Aug 22, 2026, 8:13 PM

    @antdude It was extremely difficult to go back past iOS 15 as I would have needed a Mac running an old version of macOS.

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  • Anders Borumpalmin@mastodon.social
    Aug 22, 2026, 8:59 PM

    @AT1ST @antdude I have an old Mac lying around so I could in theory go back back to iOS 12 but that is the limit.

    App Store no longer accepts submissions made with Xcode versions below 26 and Xcode 26 does’t support iOS 11 or older.

    That would extend support to iPhone 5s and iPad Air, but I feel like iOS 15 is a pretty good compromise.

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  • sukhInterfaceEngineer@mastodon.world
    Aug 23, 2026, 7:42 AM

    @palmin @AT1ST @antdude if you could in future go as low as 12.x that would be fab. Or in magical world, open source the free build so others can go through the headaches themselves (doubt this will be possible though logistically with code abstraction). iOS 12.x will allow for 6 & 5s devices which I suspect there could be reasonable amount of devices. I have a spare 6 which surprisingly still has great battery life but have sparse use atm

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  • Anders Borumpalmin@mastodon.social
    Aug 23, 2026, 8:59 AM

    @InterfaceEngineer @AT1ST @antdude I have an iPhone 5s I adore that's stuck on iOS 12, so I've researched this a lot.
    Xcode 27 drops support for iOS 14 and lower, and the App Store will likely stop accepting Xcode 26 builds in April 2027, making updates impossible.
    iOS 12 also lacks async/await in Swift, which makes networking code much harder to write, and this app has a lot of it.

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  • Gabriel Ngnyman@infosec.exchange
    Aug 28, 2026, 2:09 PM

    @palmin @InterfaceEngineer @AT1ST @antdude
    Have you looked at AltStore PAL as an option? It doesn't include US but EU, Japan, Brazil and I guess there will be more places with time...

    I mean I'm not saying it's a good idea to split the dev effort, just wondering if you looked at it?

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  • Anders Borumpalmin@mastodon.social
    Aug 28, 2026, 2:22 PM

    @gnyman @InterfaceEngineer @AT1ST @antdude I’m happy that this alternative exists but I haven’t even considered it for this app so thank you for the reminder.

    Back when AltStore PAL launched iOS was so glitchy that I couldn’t get it to work but I expect things to be smoother now.

    But it requires iOS 17.4 so it will allow me to support old iOS versions longer but not to go back past iOS 15.

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