Roger Fingas
Starting in April, developers submitting new titles to the iOS App Store will have no choice but to use the iOS 11 SDK — and if they're supporting the iPhone, offer iPhone X display compatibility.
That includes Super Retina resolution, and interface accommodations for the notch, Apple said in an email to developers on Thursday. When publishing through iTunes Connect, apps will require iPhone X screenshots, even if they're just produced through Xcode's iPhone X simulator.
Apple has yet to set an equivalent deadline for app updates.
Today's notice is likely a signal that that Apple considers the iPhone X the new template for the iPhone moving forward. The company is expected to ship three new iPhones this fall, including 5.8- and 6.5-inch OLED models and a 6.1-inch LCD variant. All of these may include some sort of display notch, since they're expected to offer Face ID across the board.
Charles Martin
Malcolm Owen
Andrew O'Hara
William Gallagher
14 Comments
Paves path fro Apps to support iPhone X style 3 iPhones in September.
I am tempted to procure an older iPhone due to all the apps I can no longer use with Apple's 'one way ticket' to iOS11 and lack of restore point option in the name of supposed progress, and frog boiling... Can we blame developers for not wanting to upgrade apps, especially the free ones ?
Need them to do the same with the app updates as well, think it’s crazy that I’ve had the X for more than 3 months now and still have 15/20 apps which haven’t been updated to the screen size! It’s also very annoying.