在Apple商店中禁用iPhone 4s的应用程序

Question

I want my apps to be available for phones above 4s ie iPhone 5,6 and iPad. How can i disable app store to make it available for iPhone 4s. It asks me to put iPhone 4s and the app is not made for its screens.

Answer 1

You can't explicitly set a list of devices compatible with your app. Some well-knows games explicitly writes the list of compatibles devices right in the beginning of the description text from the App Store.

Example taken from The Room Three app store page :

WARNING: DUE TO HEAVY GRAPHICS REQUIREMENTS, THE ROOM THREE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IPAD 1, IPHONE 4 (& OLDER IPHONES) OR IPOD TOUCH 4TH GEN (& OLDER IPODS)

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There is still a way to restrict the app to some devices using some special iOS Keys on the .plist file.

UIDeviceFamily : This key is added automatically by Xcode and represents the hardware on which this app is designed to run : iPhone/iPod touch or iPad. You can set it according to build settings.

UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities : This key is much more useful since it allows you to restrict the app according to the Device capabilities. If you don't mind losing iPhone 5 and 5C users (since their devices are no longer produced) you can set the key arm64 which means that your app is compiled only for the arm64 instruction set, and thus will work only on iPhone 5s and later devices (and this even if your app work fine in armv7).

Answer 2

Unfortunality, you can't do this. If I were you, i would check screen size in applicationDidFinishLaunching method then if device is iPhone 4s, i would show an AlertView and explain the user. This might be the best way to do this approach.