The ipa archive for armv7, armv7s, and arm64 cannot be installed on iOS 5.1.1 devices

Question

I support iOS 5.1.1 as the goal of deploying iOS with the iOS7 base SDK. Now I have a problem with the fact that iOS5.1.1 devices cannot install the application through hockey or through iTunes after the archive due to the binary file contained in it. Of course, I can create additional work on our build server, which only builds for lower iOS6 without arm64, but this is very inconvenient.

Build settings:

ARCHS = "armv7 armv7s arm64" ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH = NO

If I create "armv7" only for the active architecture, I can install the archive through itunes.

Can this apple delete 64-bit binary code before the application is delivered to iOS 5.1.1 devices?

Thanks Marcus

Answer 1

Create an iPa file by archiving without connecting a device. I found problems with archiving using a new device, Xcode seems to take away its architecture and may affect an older device saying "incompatible"

Unlike what I initially thought, you do not need to connect the device during archiving only if it is not the selected simulator.

I hope this helps someone else with the same problems.