Apple requiring apps be developed on Xcode 13 starting April 25

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• Reply 1 of 9

  22july2013 Posts: 3,571member

  March 16, 2022 1:15AM

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  
• Reply 2 of 9

  JinTech Posts: 1,022member

  March 16, 2022 1:37AM

  22july2013 said:

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  Likely on April 25th.

  
• Reply 3 of 9

  shareef777 Posts: 136member

  March 16, 2022 1:41AM

  JinTech said:

  22july2013 said:

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  Likely on April 25th.

  Unlikely. That date is for NEW app submissions. Generally speaking the only time an app is booted from the store is if it A.) violates Apple's rules or B.) becomes a competitor to a feature Apple is releasing. Other then that, Apple couldn't care less how old and outdated an app is. Every version sold is $$$ for them, screw the end user experience.
• Reply 4 of 9

  JinTech Posts: 1,022member

  March 16, 2022 2:04AM

  shareef777 said:

  JinTech said:

  22july2013 said:

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  Likely on April 25th.

  Unlikely. That date is for NEW app submissions. Generally speaking the only time an app is booted from the store is if it A.) violates Apple's rules or B.) becomes a competitor to a feature Apple is releasing. Other then that, Apple couldn't care less how old and outdated an app is. Every version sold is $$$ for them, screw the end user experience.

  According to the article, it says "Apple will soon require that all apps developed for its platforms be built with Xcode 13, the latest version of the company's development kit." which implies this will apply to old apps as well.

  
• Reply 5 of 9

  Stabitha_Christie Posts: 439member

  March 16, 2022 11:59AM

  JinTech said:

  shareef777 said:

  JinTech said:

  22july2013 said:

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  Likely on April 25th.

  Unlikely. That date is for NEW app submissions. Generally speaking the only time an app is booted from the store is if it A.) violates Apple's rules or B.) becomes a competitor to a feature Apple is releasing. Other then that, Apple couldn't care less how old and outdated an app is. Every version sold is $$$ for them, screw the end user experience.

  According to the article, it says "Apple will soon require that all apps developed for its platforms be built with Xcode 13, the latest version of the company's development kit." which implies this will apply to old apps as well.

  The sentence right after the one you quoted says the new rule will apply to submissions. That makes it sound like only new apps and updates. 

  
• Reply 6 of 9

  MissNomer Posts: 25member

  March 16, 2022 2:24PM

  JinTech said:

  shareef777 said:

  JinTech said:

  22july2013 said:

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  Likely on April 25th.

  Unlikely. That date is for NEW app submissions. Generally speaking the only time an app is booted from the store is if it A.) violates Apple's rules or B.) becomes a competitor to a feature Apple is releasing. Other then that, Apple couldn't care less how old and outdated an app is. Every version sold is $$$ for them, screw the end user experience.

  According to the article, it says "Apple will soon require that all apps developed for its platforms be built with Xcode 13, the latest version of the company's development kit." which implies this will apply to old apps as well.

   “ Starting April 25, 2022, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 13, which includes the SDKs for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8.”
  
  Implies the action of new submissions.
  
  Besides, Apple do this all the time - this is not a new policy - it’s simply a clarification on which version is now required.

  
• Reply 7 of 9

  geekmee Posts: 629member

  March 16, 2022 3:18PM

  Where does ‘Swift’ fit in??
  (I am obviously an end user, not a coder or developer. Normally I wouldn’t read an announcement like this.)
  Just curious, a high end analogy will do.

  edited March 2022
• Reply 8 of 9

  chadbag Posts: 2,000member

  March 16, 2022 3:44PM

  geekmee said:

  Where does ‘Swift’ fit in??
  (I am obviously an end user, not a coder or developer. Normally I wouldn’t read an announcement like this.)
  Just curious, a high end analogy will do.

  “Swift” is one of the main computer languages used to develop for Apple platforms.  The other being the older Objective-C.  

  
  

  “Swift UI” is a new-ish library for UI implementation using the Swift language.  The traditional library, UIKit, is Objective-C oriented in terms of how it works so Apple made a new one more oriented to Swift paradigms.  Having said that I would bet UIKit is used a lot more than Swift UI. UiKit works perfectly well with the Swift language. 

  
• Reply 9 of 9

  tokyojimu Posts: 529member

  March 16, 2022 8:00PM

  22july2013 said:

  When will Apple start booting apps from the App Store that haven't been updated for two years, since Privacy Labels were established?

  Hopefully never. I use a handful of apps that have been abandoned by their developer, and if they were kicked out for this reason, I would lose access to them.