Try to search, and you will be met with disappointment. Notably absent is any information about macOS adoption rates. Even popular tech blogs, like MacRumors regularly repost this information as well, in case you do not follow these primary sources. In any case, there is ample data not only provided by Apple on their App Store support page, but third-party analytics companies like Mixpanel also report their own data. (Now is around the time that teams are dropping support for iOS 12, if they haven’t already.) In some cases, especially for very popular apps at large companies, supporting three (or more) versions of iOS may be the norm, but generally speaking, it is not common. Usually, there is a short period right after a new iOS release where you are supporting the last three versions, the oldest of which is eventually dropped. As of this writing, that would mean supporting iOS 13 and 14. Choosing a deployment targetįor iOS, the general rule in the community and “official” guidance from Apple is to support the most recent major version of iOS as well as the previous major release. One of the big differences is testing, and deciding how many versions of macOS to support. While many aspects of writing Mac apps are very similar to iOS, or at least somewhat familiar, other aspects are quite different. As I continue to pursue Mac app development more seriously, I can build on and borrow from my many years of iOS experience.
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