Minimum deployment Version for older WatchOSs and newer iOSs.

If a "Minimum Deployment Target" is updated to WatchOS7 on a product(iOS app with a companion watch app) that is already available on the App Store, watches running WatchOS6 will obviously no longer get updates.

However, what is the experience for a user who has a WatchOS6 (maybe they own a Series 2) connected to an iPhone with iOS14?

  • Will both the iPhone app and the Watch app stop getting updates?
  • Will the Watch app stop getting updates, but the iPhone app continue receiving them and we have to manage this?
  • Something else?

Thanks in advance!

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I second this question and behaviour here.

I'd like to know if my independent Watch app will still be available in the WatchOS App Store on WatchOS 6 devices if I release an update with the minimum deployment target of WatchOS 7. And if the user has a newer iPhone that supports a later version of my app, but the watch doesn't, what happens then?

Thanks

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I'm still struggling to find an answer to this question. Did either of you find out the answer either from documentation or through experimentation?

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