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Maybe I misunderstood her, but she says it cost her several hours to rewrite her code to be able to compile her app again for the newest iOS and iPadOS versions.

Doesn’t this imply that her app would not have worked on the latest OSses?

In other words: if she had done nothing then her app would not work on newer devices? If so, then isn’t it useful for apple to warn her about this?

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You misunderstood. Otherwise the whole article wouldn't make sense, she clearly states that it still works fine on new devices.

Compiling with the newest versions of the libraries/tools can be a lot of hassle including downloading/instaling multiple GB's

The newest OSes will run apps made with earlier versions of the libraries/tools fine, up to a point of course.

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