Need to revert a universal app to iphone in iTunes connect

The question is can we replace a Universal App with and Iphone app in iTunes connect and what are the steps. In this case the iPhone app is the app the Universal app replaced in the first place.


Our client claims you cannot replace a Universal app with an iPhone app but we cannot tell if that is a message they got from trying to do it in the store or hearsay.


Background:




Our client had another developer (actually a few even before that) deliver an IOS universal app that was upgrade from the iPhone app already in the store. It was built starting witht the code base for that original iPhone app in the store.


Unfortunately the developer had serious bugs in the iPhone version of the universal app that were missed by the client.


More unfortunate is that the client replaced the iPhone app in the store with the Uuniversal app without QA and so with the improperly functioning iPhone part.


They since took the universal app out of the store.


We have the source for the original iPhone version and thought we could simply build that and replace the broken universal app.

Posted on Jul 12, 2012 10:06 AM

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Jul 12, 2012 1:16 PM in response to K T

UPDATE: Ignore this is from 2010 and pre-dates Universal app type.


Although the original poster has not replied back this is a hackish tease for a solution:



Want to downgrade from an Universal app to just an ipad app..


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277945/want-to-downgrade-from-an-universal-a pp-to-just-an-ipad-app


First make sure you change that setting both for the project and your target, if it is still unchanged just manually edit project.pbxproj in the xcode project bundle changing all occurences of TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY = "1,2" to TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY = "1"

also Minimum OS Requirements is determined by the deployment sdk setting (IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in the aforementioned file) , not affected by LSMinimumSystemVersion

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