Currently, no. See this page, section "Test for Compatibility": https://developer.apple.com/ios7/
"New apps and app updates submitted to the App Store should support iOS 7 and be optimized for iOS devices with Retina display. iPhone apps must also support the 4-inch display on iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, and iPhone 5c." The operative word is "should", and as Build has encountered already, they are still accepting iOS 6 built apps. Most likely the added time is for developer testing with the new devices. The operative word is "should", it used to say "must": https://devforums.apple.com/message/884949#884949 My guess for iOS 7 being required is when they support compiling a fat binary of 32-bit for iOS 6 and 32 and 64-bit for iOS 7: https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=9162013a The ETA for that is "next month" (end of it, most like), when OS X Mavericks is released (note that Xcode 5.0 GM does not include Mavericks support) and the new iPads come out. There are no plans IMO for Cordova to care about 64-bit support until this fat binary format is supported. At this point, I'm not sure if there are any performance gains, there is no data for this until we can run benchmarks on 64-bit devices like the iPhone 5s and the new (future) iPads. ============= LIMITATIONS ON iOS 6 BUILT APPS RUNNING ON iOS 7 DEVICES ============= Microphone access requires user permission now on iOS 7. When an iOS 6 built binary runs on iOS 7, any microphone access is by default *allowed* but the resulting audio file will be *silent*. The media and media-capture core plugins can use the microphone - and iOS 7 support for the microphone have just been tagged in the repos (thanks Steve Gill): https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-plugin-media.git;a=summary See tag r0.2.3 https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-plugin-media-capture.git;a=summary See tag r0.2.2 The same goes for the splash screen plugin, it has a change for iOS 7 support: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-plugin-splashscreen.git;a=summary See tag r0.2.2 These changes are in their master branches as well, and have been pushed to http://plugins.cordova.io If CLI and plugman users re-get the plugins (by id), the latest code should be downloaded.
