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I'm designing a keyboard that takes advantage of the larger screen of iPhone 6 Plus (but on iPhone 6 it's usable to some extent too). My keyboard is basically useless on pre-4.7 inch devices (e.g. iPhone 5s and below) and for this reason I need to target only iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and any future iPhones. Is this possible? If yes, how? If not, what would be a good workaround?

Can Poyrazoğlu
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  • I don't believe that this is possible. You will need to support all devices that can run iOS 8 – Paulw11 Oct 09 '14 at 22:37
  • @Paulw11 but the whole app is based on the extra real estate available on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. There *should* be a workaround in the logical sense. – Can Poyrazoğlu Oct 09 '14 at 22:38
  • I don't believe that your app will make it through App Store review if it doesn't support iPhone 4S/5/5S in some way. – Paulw11 Oct 09 '14 at 22:52
  • @Paulw11 It technically can support, I mean, it will work as a regular keyboard, but I don't want to, as there's no meaning in it. – Can Poyrazoğlu Oct 09 '14 at 22:57
  • I don't think that is a choice you get to make (not wanting to I mean) - as you say it may not have any advantage, but you can't prevent it from running on a pre 6 device – Paulw11 Oct 09 '14 at 22:58
  • @Paulw11 Well I'll just try to explain it in details, and add some "boilerplate" functionality just to support older devices. – Can Poyrazoğlu Oct 09 '14 at 22:59
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/62788/discussion-between-paulw11-and-can-poyrazoglu). – Paulw11 Oct 09 '14 at 22:59

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You cannot submit an app to the app store that exclusively runs on iPhone 6. You must also support 5, 5c, 5s and 4s. There is no workaround other than providing a version of your keyboard that works on all of these devices.

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