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How many iOS devices do you have available to use for app testing?


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firewood

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Jul 29, 2003
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How many actual iOS devices do you use these days for testing your apps before submitting them to the App store?

Xcode builds 2 different executables (arm7 and arm64).
For several months out of each year, the most current iOS version is not the most dominant OS version.
And there are 6 different sizes of display (3.5,4,4.7,5.5,7.9 and 9.7).
That's a lot of combinations.

Do you depend on beta test people (where you can't directly debug)?

Then again, a lot of developers depend on the iOS Simulator (which runs x86-64 code) for some, many or all device variations.
 
I try to test on as many devices as possible. Usually my iPhone 6 Plus on a real device, occasionally an iPhone 4 running iOS 7, but usually in the simulator for smaller screen devices and iOS 7.

QA and E2E testing test on a variety of devices so are much more likely to pick up things.
 
I test on iPad 2, 3, 4, Air, Air 2, Mini w/retina, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 & 6 plus.

All running various versions and flavors of iOS.

Still have my iPad 1 but don't use it for testing since it can't run iOS 7+.
 
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