Just FYI I wanted to respond but then I noticed the discussion continued on GitHub <https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions/566#discussioncomment- 14660048>
On October 12, 2025, Manuel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to raise the minimum iOS version for cordova-ios 8.0.0 > from 13 to 15. Here are the reasons: > > Still 10 years of device support > > We still support devices released in 2015. The minimum iPhone would be > iPhone 6s released on September 2015, or iPhone SE - 1. generation - > released in 2016. For iPadOS, this would be iPad Air 2 (2014), or iPad > 5. Generation (2017). > > No Simulators available for older OSs > > In the recent XCode 26 version you can minimum install an iOS 15 > simulator. The minimum XCode version supported by Apple for uploading > new apps is XCode 16 (requirement since 24. April 2025). The > deployment target must be set to iOS 18 and you can also minimum > install an iOS 15 simulator in XCode 16. According ChatGPT, you can't > test an App with XCode 16 on a iOS 13 device. > > Remove code for older OSs > > We can remove Code for older OSs and must not support them any more. > > What do you think about it? I started also a GitHub discussion for it: > <https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions/566>. > > Regards, > > Manuel > > On 2025/09/19 01:15:22 Darryl Pogue wrote: > > Hi folks, > > The general chaos of life has interfered with my elaborate plans to > > get Cordova iOS 8 out the door soon after the beta1 release we did, > > but with the release of iOS and Xcode 26 we should probably try to > get > > this thing ready. > > > > - The only outstanding PR for functionality that I think is > > absolutely necessary is > > <https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/1560> because Apple is > in > > the process of deprecating a bunch of the UIApplicationDelegate > stuff. > > > > - There are several open PRs related to an existing issue in > > Meteor Apps where the app shows a white screen, but nobody has been > > able to pin down the exact cause and all of the proposed fixes will > > potentially break existing apps. I'm unconvinced that the issue is > on > > Cordova's end rather than Meteor's end. > > > > - I would love to replace our ios-deploy and ios-sim dependencies > > with something like native-run[1] (especially since ios-deploy > doesn't > > support iOS 17 and newer) but that's going to involve quite a bit of > > refactoring and would be a breaking change. > > > > Is there anything else that anyone thinks is important to get in to > > Cordova iOS 8? Do we want to do a beta2 or rc1 release for more > > community testing or do we want to go right ahead and publish 8.0.0? > > > > Cheers, > > ~Darryl > > > > [1] <https://www.npmjs.com/package/native-run> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
