Hey folks,
I'd like to know if anyone faced the same problem and how did you overcome it. We're considering depreciating one of our app's platform but will continue developing and introducing new features to the rest of athe pp platforms.
Imagine there's an app called "Great app" and it has 4 platforms configured (and all in sales) in the App Store Connect: it has iOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS. However, you come to a decision to discontinue development and support for e.g. tvOS app/platform but will continue improving the rest of the app platforms.
What is 100% clear - there is no way to remove the platform that has been submitted and in sales. Also, there's no way to manage some platforms independently from the rest app platforms (any changes to e.g. country availability affect all app platforms). We clarified this with Apple already.
So there's a dilemma: you will always have the app in production and in sales which has a platform that is not anymore supported, maintained, etc. That's very sad from users' perspective as they can still find the tvOS platform app, download it, and become pretty disappointed.
Would love to hear thoughts/suggestions/ideas from anyone who faced the same. How did you manage it? Did you prepare some kinds of funneling into your sideload app platform, or put some depreciation screens/information for users, how did you overcome the limitations set in App Review Guidelines, etc.
Cheers.