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arm64 starting February issue

Apple announced that is will not allow applications without arm64 to be uploaded.

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=10202014a

I have several questions:

  1. Is it only about new applications?
  2. Or existing applications on App Store (that don't support arm64) will be removed?
  3. Or starting this date I will not be allowed to update existing application on App Store?

P.S. It's important for me, because I use tokbox sdk, and it doesn't support arm64.

Solution

  • There is a slightly more detailed announcement:

    As we announced in October, beginning on February 1, 2015 new iOS apps submitted to the App Store must include 64-bit support and be built with the iOS 8 SDK. Beginning June 1, 2015 app updates will also need to follow the same requirements. To enable 64-bit in your project, we recommend using the default Xcode build setting of “Standard architectures” to build a single binary with both 32-bit and 64-bit code.

    So for new apps, the deadline is February 1, 2015. Existing apps may still submit 32-bit-only updates, but starting June 1, 2015 even existing apps must also support 64-bit when submitting updates.

    Existing apps will most likely not be removed, not even after the June 1 deadline. But they will reject submitted updates if those do not contain 64-bit support. As far as I know, Apple has not removed any existing apps yet simply because they're "outdated".