[jcampbell1]

Can someone comment on what is going to happen when iOS 7 is released? The upgrade from 5->6 didn't break any apps by default. It appears 7 resizes all the stock controls, and this breaks tons of apps by default. Will an existing iOS6 app work unchanged in iOS 7, or will it have to be fixed.

[escoz]

IOS7 only resizes controls built with the new iOS7 SDK. Apps build with the iOS6 sdk continue to look and work just line normal, and my guess is a lot of the crashes people are seeing are regression bugs for Apple. The latest Beta 5 fixed a ton of crashes on some apps I've been using.

[potatolicious]

Without going into too many details, iOS6 apps should continue working, as anything built with the iOS6 SDK will be operating in some kind of back-compat mode.

That being said, some of the back-compat modes don't really work due to large changes in the underlying codebase.

[micampe]

> That being said, some of the back-compat modes don't really work due to large changes in the underlying codebase.

Which ones?

[Tehnix]

I doubt it's under the NDA to say that most apps (that I use) work fine under iOS 7 (and these are iOS 6 apps). Of course there are some that crash/break, but overall, it's okay.

In short, the app situation feels more or less just as 5->6 beta did.

[clarky07]

Any details here are likely under NDA. I'd expect most apps to work just fine though as they have worked fine during the other upgrades.

[myko]

> The upgrade from 5->6 didn't break any apps by default.

Didn't rotation API changes make certain apps not work right, particularly on the iPad?