@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.
@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?
@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.