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I am on macOS Monterey and seems this app requires Ventura or higher. Does it use any APIs from the newer OS version? If not, could you please consider relaxing this and allow older version installations too?

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I wanted to at least target Big Sur, but the problem is that Apple doesn't understand the term "backwards compatibility" when it comes to SwiftUI. Every new feature they add to SwiftUI is only for the latest version of macOS. And since SwiftUI is a relatively new UI framework, they add things that are missing or greatly improved from the previous solution.

In conclusion, if I wanted to add extended support, I would have to put a ton of work into workarounds for features that are Ventura only.

Yeah I was wondering the same. Why tf does this need to be on the latest MacOS?

most likely milanvarady used the defaults from xcode to build and distribute

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