Editing "minimum iOS" in Xcode

John N

I have an iOS app ready for submitting at App Store.
I have tested and found that it does not work on iOS 12.9.
It makes sense since Xcode 16 only supports iOS 17 & 18

I unzipped the .ipa file and looked in the file Info.plist.
Here it says that the minimum iOS is 12.2:

<key>MinimumOSVersion</key>
<string>12.2</string>

I know you can edit this value in Xcode and would like to change the minimum version like this:

Xcode → Targets → General → Deployment Info → iOS Deployment Target = 17.0 (or 16, 15...)

But I don't think it's possible in Pubcoder?

TO PUBCODER: Would it be possible for you to add a field in the iOS export panel to set the Minimum iOS Version?

John N

I'm surprised to see this:
I unzipped an .IPA I created in January 2024 from Pubcoder version 5.0.3.
In the Info.plist it says:

<key>MinimumOSVersion</key>
<string>13.7</string>

I wonder why the MinimumOSVersion is higher than in the latest Pubcoder 5.0.9 where it is 12.2.

What I would like is to avoid that users download my app only to find out it won't run after installing.

Angelo S

Hello John, that's now fixed in PubCoder 5.1. The new minimum requirement is iOS 15

Ethan P

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