Again, afaik, the app coding should always work on both as they're the same processor type and OS; it is only display size that is the operable issue. An iPhone app takes up a fraction of the display of an iPad, but it can blow it up full screen. An iPad app will assume so much display area it's never going to fit on the little iPhone screens.
That's the simplification as I understand it. An iPad app should be smart enough to check this first, and exit once it realises, before trying to do anything stupid. BTW, I think it was BMW that pioneered the emergency spare wheel as a small one to save trunk/boot space, so it was just enough to limp home on. Terrible on potholes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Reiser" <mike.rei...@icloud.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:43 AM Subject: Re: Should I not run iPhone only apps on my iPad? When I told him that this app was designed for the iPhone, he told me that I could put the wrong size tire on a car and get it to work sometimes. That was basically his comparison. I just thought it was very odd that he decided to ask me about this instead of just taking my issue. Mike Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 26, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are apps for iPad, iPhone or for any device. If their app is not > specifically designated as for any device, then they don't have to support > it on all devices. I do have some iPhone only designated apps that do not > work on the iPad and vise versa. However, many are designated as both and > run fine on either device. > > >> On Apr 26, 2014, at 6:09 PM, Donna <merma...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >> I believe you received bad info. I say this, because I search for apps on >> my iPhone for my 3 children. I have my iPhone setup to share apps, music >> and books across devices. So all the apps on my children's iPads are >> iPhone apps. I have used their iPad to search the app store and didn't >> have any problem with the app store crashing. >> With that said, I haven't tried with the latest update. >> >> Donna >> >>> On Apr 26, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Michael Reiser <mike.rei...@icloud.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I reported a problem to an Apple accessibility person today regarding an >>> app store crash when I switch from iPad only apps to iPhone only apps >>> when searching. He told me that since the app in question was designed >>> to run on an iPhone and not an iPad that he wasn't sure that his >>> engineers could come up with a fix. Does it really matter that I'm >>> trying to run an iPhone only app on my iPad mini or did I get bad >>> support? His basic point was that I was trying to run an app on a >>> device it wasn't trying to run on. It seems like this is beside the >>> point that the App Store is crashing when I'm trying to perform a search >>> in this way. 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