Problem: I have built an app using Cordova 6.5.0. The app downloads and works perfectly on Android and iOS 10, but it will not install on devices with iOS 9.
I have a download link to a manifest.plist file. The link uses an .ipa ad hoc XCode build.
Once again, this download fails on devices with iOS 9.
When it's downloaded on iOS 9, the downloader receives the error message:
App kann nicht geladen werden.
[App Name] kann derzeit nicht installiert werden.
Option: Fertig oder Wiederholen
This roughly translates to:
App can not be loaded.
[App Name] cannot currently be installed.
Option: Finished or Retry
I set the minimum deployment target to 8.0 in Xcode, and I also tried setting the iOS minimum deployment target to 8.0 in Cordova's config.xml. None of this has helped.
I tried building and archiving in XCode 7, since the "DTSDKName" is set to "iphoneios10.3", and perhaps this is coming from my XCode 8 build.
The download link still fails with the build from XCode 7.
I apologize if this question is vague, but I'd be happy to provide any details that would be helpful.
To make matters more difficult, I only have iOS 9 XCode simulators (I don't have an actual device with iOS 9 to test).
I am not an iOS developer, so I am doing a lot of trial and error. I'm using Cordova, which has made it possible for me to work on this app without Objective-C or Swift knowledge.
That being said. If this is a vague question, I don't mind deleting it. However, I would be grateful if someone might be able to provide me with a little guidance.
Thank you in advance.
So it seems that this answers my question: What is the difference between In House versus Ad Hoc distribution for Enterprise apps?
I needed to assign the release build to an In House provisioning profile rather than an Ad hoc provisioning profile.
When I exported the app file, I needed to Save for Enterprise Deployment rather than Save for Ad Hoc Deployment
This problem didn't have anything to do with the iOS version, but rather with certain devices not being authorized to download the Ad-hoc build. It just so happened that the unauthorized devices were using iOS 9.