Behaviour of existing Apps when iPhone updates to iOS 14.

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Created Jul ’20

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Please can you confirm the behaviour of an Apps on iOS 14 if user has not updated that app through App store. Let's say an App 'XYZ' accesses local network on iOS 13 and it was working as expected. Then user updates the iPhone to iOS 14 but does not update the App 'XYZ'. can that App still access the local network (to support backward compatibility)? If not, then is Apple looking into some strategy to notify such user to update all the Apps (that require local network permission) as well along with iOS 14?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’20

I recommend that you test this on the current iOS 14 beta seed. I think I know what’ll happen here, but perhaps I shouldn’t be trusted (-:

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Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’20

Enforcement of using Info.plist keys to allow Bonjour and local network access (or entitlements for multicast) is based on the SDK the app used when linking. Apps built for iOS 13 or earlier will continue to work with the default user prompt even after the device updates to iOS 14.

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