During its "Time Flies" event yesterday, Apple announced that iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14 will be widely released today, providing developers with just one day's notice to submit their optimized apps for review.
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While developers have had access to beta versions of the software updates since June, many were caught off guard by Apple's much shorter notice of the final releases. By comparison, Apple started accepting apps built for iOS 13 on September 10 last year, over one week before the software update was released on September 19.
A big WTF at Apple dropping iOS 14 tomorrow without giving developers any notice, or final tools to submit their apps 😂 — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) September 15, 2020
Apple randomly dropping iOS 14 in one day without any prior notice is very on brand with 2020. — Shihab (JPEGuin) (@JPEGuin) September 15, 2020
I would like to thank @apple for giving developers less than 24 hours notice on the release of iOS 14. Zero time to submit our apps that support iOS 14’s features. 😕 — Aaron (@AaronTunney) September 15, 2020
Time flies, when you have no notice to submit app updates for iOS 14 🤣 — Dom (@domzy) September 15, 2020
Apple announcing the iOS 14 release date 24 hours ahead of time as a summer ending gift to developers 🤣 — Ben Thompson (@benthompson) September 15, 2020
I wouldn’t say that. It’s two eternal problems: - Apple’s hardware release dates dictate their software release dates, not the software quality or readiness. - Most of Apple seems to have *far* too little of an idea of the challenges and conditions faced by outside developers. https://t.co/uWGwlkYEvl — Marco Arment (@marcoarment) September 16, 2020
In an email to developers, Apple said that all iOS and iPadOS apps submitted to the App Store will need to be built with Xcode 12 and the iOS 14 SDK starting in April 2021. Likewise, Apple said all watchOS apps submitted to the App Store will need to be built with Xcode 12 and the watchOS 7 SDK starting in April 2021.
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Except it doesn't work that way. We always had a week to 10 days to test our apps with the final build.You developers had whole summer to update your apps! Stop finding an excuse to bash at Apple.
Focus on 14.1 that will be dropping soon.
You also can't be submitting to the store with beta builds of Xcode. We only got the final version of Xcode yesterday and when this happens review times always go way up. So if our app does not work on iOS 14 it could be days to over a week before we can submit a build with iOS 14 that corrects those issues.
They weren't accepting submissions before yesterday.I understand the frustration behind not knowing the *exact* date... but when we hit Public Beta 8, did they not think... oh man, this is coming soon, I should get my iOS 14 apps submitted.
Why don't people buy an iPhone 12 right now, instead of complaining Apple didn't release one.
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I can tell you're not a developer. Let me explain that those three months aren't reliable testing. Sure you can update some stuff, like new APIs and things but a dev can only really reliably test against the GM seed which dropped yesterday. If someones apps broke due to the GM they literally have one night to fix it, which doesn't provide enough time for reliable regression testing (if they can even fix the bug in one night.)They had 3 months of betas to get it ready, they wait till last min and say this
The whole beta testing is for apps to get it ready they should all be updated on launch but it always takes months that’s coz the developers can act lazy like Facebook with dark mode
You also couldn't even submit apps for iOS 14 until yesterday.
Then we will come back in about 4 hours and they will be whining saying their favorite app does not work with iOS 14.
/s I assume? If so ignore the rest of my post, if not just know that's not how it works. Developers can test reliably only against the GM seed which literally dropped yesterday. Also Apples approval process isn't instant, so many apps won't work on day one.You developers had whole summer to update your apps! Stop finding an excuse to bash at Apple.
Focus on 14.1 that will be dropping soon.