iPhone 8 / 8Plus / X support

QA is looking into your case.

 

Hello,
I published some games on the app store last year, they were build by Unity 5.3+ and Xcode 7.3+, does this mean they will be letterboxed on the iphone x?
Thank you

 

Yes, it will be letterboxed.

 

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but even if my game is set up to scale to any aspect ratio you're saying on the iPhone X it will still letterbox? I just need to rebuild in XCode 9 / latest Unity to fix?

 

Yes, you need to submit your game using Xcode 9.

 

rebuilt my game using xcode 9.1 still letterboxed in simulator any idea why ?

 

Check your launch screen settings, you should use either adaptive launch screen or fixed res (that matches iPhone X resolution) static launch image.

 

Hi, we are using the Unity 5.6.4 p1 trying to run the game with the Xcode simulator for iPhoneX test. But, the Xcode simulator crash everytime we tried to run, but if you deploy to a device, works perfectly. Do you know if this issue is for this new update? Or is a Xcode problem?

Thanks

 

I think it's not known problem. Please submit a bugreport.

 

I am using Xcode 9, Unity 5.6.4f1.
I want to show letterboxes on iPhone X.
I found that 'show splash screen' turned off and launch screen type set to 'none' can show letterboxes, but I need launch screen.
What can I do? Thanks.

 

Hi, I have updated Unity to 5.6.4p1 and trying to use if (Device.generation == DeviceGeneration.iPhoneX) but running it on the iPhone X simulator (Xcode 9.1) it looks like the if statement isn't running. I have debug logged the Device.generation separately as well and it shows Unknown. I just wanted to confirm whether this check will run properly on a physical device or not?

 

I just got my first iPhone X review for Nimian Legends : BrightRidge and they said there was shadow flickering.

I have experimental builds working in unity 5.6.4p1 but my core project is in Unity 5.2.2

It's going to be very difficult to squeeze out the memory performance of 5.2. in 5.6. Is there any way at all in 5.2 i can fix the shadows on my end with a setting or code or something? My goal is to keep trying to upgrade the game successfully, but until i can manage that a backup option will help. I suspect the answer is no but it can't hurt to ask

 

Testing on device, there are some issues with iPhoneX:

* Reporting Screen.dpi as 0 (5.6.4p1) which is causing havok with UI scaling
* Reporting generation as "iPhone8Plus" rather than iPhoneX

Have logged a bug - #966101

 

Hi,
I just rebuilded my app to Iphone X. It is showing in letterboxing mode. Do you know how should I do to make it full screen mode? The touch input is also weird in letterboxing mode. It seems like the touch point is off and unity is not able to detect the display area in letterboxing mode. Even I touched black area in letterboxing mode, unity is reading the input. Do you know how should I resolve this error? I just want my game to display in full screen, so everything should be fine again I suppose. Thanks

 

Set iPhone Splash Screen Mode to Default.

 

Do you mind showing me how to set that? I could not find that option in Player inspector. I only see the iphone launch screen is set as default which is not working.

 

Strange. It did it for me.

 

never mind. It works. I think it was my fault for setting resolution manually. Thanks for the help

 

I have the same issue with the DeviceGeneration returning iPhone8Plus instead of iPhoneX. I tried to find your bug repport on Unity Issue tracker, but was unable to find it. Could you maybe post a link to the issue, then I can vote on the issue. Trying to work around the issue by using the SystemInfo.DeviceModel. Not pretty, but as long as it works right?

 

For the shadow flickering Ive had one report from iPhone 8 plus and no shadow flickering, and one iPhone X with shadow flickering.

Since both use A11 chip I'm wondering if the shadow flickering only happens in certain circumstances? certain IOS versions perhaps? Do you guys know?

 

I noticed somewhere Unity gave the wrong SystemInfo.DeviceModel for iPhone 8plus (cant remember where i saw it) - maybe it's wrong in the official enum and thats the issue?

I use these numbers from the web.

public var deviceID : String ;
public var deviceName : String ;

function Start () {

deviceID = SystemInfo.deviceModel;

// iPhone 8
if(deviceID == "iPhone10,1" || deviceID == "iPhone10,4"){
deviceName = "iPhone 8";
}

// iPhone 8 plus
if(deviceID == "iPhone10,2 " || deviceID == "iPhone10,5"){
deviceName = "iPhone 8 plus";
}

// iPhone X
if(deviceID == "iPhone10,3 " || deviceID == "iPhone10,6"){
deviceName = "iPhone X";
}

}


I actually prefer this method because I don;t have to wait for enums and it works i older versions of unity.​

 

Apparently the device identifier issue has been merged with the DPI bug - https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...rn-incorrect-number-of-dpi-on-iphone-8-8-plus

 

Hi @Mantas-Puida , we have a problem with multi-line keyboard on iPhone X. The rect where the text is written starts outside the safe are making the first letters unreadable. Case 967012

If you have any workaround for this, we would be very grateful because the only way to make it work correctly today is to do single line input, and it's not user friendly when our users are sending something through our in-game mail system and they can't format text

 

hi , about the plugin "iPhone X safe area detection API"
is there anyway i can test it without an iphone X ? (in editor , maybe ? )
i already tested it in editor in ios platform but it get error

 

You can test it in the simulator. I recommend you use xCode 9.1, because in xCode 9, it's not usable. You will have to have a version of your project with no plugin as often, they can't run in the simulator

 

We are victims of this issue too.

 

@sieutungbi - I've kind of faked it in my editor using the plugin provided and created a UNITY_EDITOR condition that'll allow me to set up some approximate values for the canvas size so that it'll position my assets correctly... not perfect, but its good enough to make sure I don't miss anything.

That, and using an iPhone X semi-transparent canvas.

 

Hey, so I'm trying to get the launch image thing correctly on the iPhone X(works correctly on all other devices).
There are two stages to this:

• 1) The app starts and an image is shown.
• 2) Unity prompts it's splash screen / loading indicator phase.

For all devices except the iPhone X the image of phase #1 is the same for phase #2, but on the iPhone X it's either a black screen or one of the other screens included in the project...

First I thought it was some caching issue but I think Unity is trying to fetch the wrong or no image for some reason, perhaps due to reporting it to be an iPhone 8 or something as mentioned before?

Also, this is in the simulator, I don't have an iPhone X personally so not sure if it would actually work or not on the real device.

Any other people encountered this? This is the only thing, the rest of the game works great in the new resolution, that stands before us releasing an update for iPhone X so would be great to get a fix for this!

 

Im Sorry. But i can't still figure out, one moment. Im using Unity 5.6.4, but i can't launch application on my iPhone X in full screen landscape. There are two left and right black bars and the main frame is 16:9. Is it even possible to launch Unity Application in full screen on iPhone X with 2436x1125 res ?

 

Yes - but you have to add the appropriate launch image for iPhone X either in xcode or download the latest Unity beta - in order for it not to render the game letterboxed.

 

Do you know if this works? Without actually having an iPhone X, it's hard for me to know.

Also, you have an extra space in your iPhone 8 and iPhone X detection:
"iPhone10,2 "
"iPhone10,3 "

just an FYI in case you copied that from your source.

 

Thanks for letting me know - Ive fixed that in my code as it was a direct copy - i appreciate it

I haven't tested it on iPhone X so i don't know, but i got them from the same place as my other detectors so i am assuming it is good:

https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=iPhone10,2

This is pretty comprehensive and you can find all the devices, including when they have Chinese variants on the same phone for example.

 

Unity 5.6.4p1 fixed the shader pink issue on my IOS 8 iPAd - thank you.

It also runs almost as fast as unity 5.2.2 version on my devices. I feel like i am getting very close to being able to finally upgrade to Unity 5.6 from 5.2!

Thank you

 

I'm hoping it works too. Like you, I haven't tried it yet on an actual device yet. I've put in debug code to detect the device and it works fine on my iPhone 6 plus, but on the simulator in xcode for iPhone X it comes back with "_x86_64". I'm assuming that's just because it's the simulator and not the actual device, but it would be great to get some verification if anyone has an actual iPhone X device.

Thanks!

 

One of my players has iPhone X and it returns iPhone 10,6 so i think these codes are good.

 

Nice to meet you.
I am a uinty developer.
Can I use this plug-in freely even in the case of commercial use?
I do not have a rights expression, so I'd like to confirm.

https://bitbucket.org/p12tic/iossafeareasplugin/src

 

I've updated to Unity 5.6.4p3, and great to see support for iPhoneX Splash screen there, but the trampoline code doesn't currently load this image. The following needs to be added:

1.Device should be marked as orientable in (void)create UIWindow*)window

Code (CSharp):

1. _isOrientable = isIpad || (size.height == 736 || size.width == 736) || (size.height == 812 || size.width == 812);

2.GetLaunchImageName needs the following appended:

Code (CSharp):

1. else if (screenSize.height == 812 || screenSize.width == 812) // iPhone X
2.             name = @"LaunchImage~2436";

3. GetLaunchImageFileName needs to be appended:

Code (CSharp):

1. else if (screenSize.height == 812 || screenSize.width == 812) // iPhoneX
2.         {
3.             resolutionSuffix = "-2436h";
4.             iOSSuffix = "-1100";
5.         }

(Submitted as Case 972995)

 

Hi all,

Just grabbed this patch release and I was messing with the defer system gestures option and it seems to work on the top gestures like control panel and notifications but the 'home button' at the bottom seems to still activate on the first swipe. Is that right? I guess they want that to be pretty responsive, I'm just a bit worried people will accidentally flick themselves out of a game

Thanks
Pete

 

This isn't working for us. It still uses the splash assigned to "Mobile Splash Screen" in Unity 5.6.5. Any chance there is an extra step involved?

Unity team- will a fix for this be coming to U5?

 

With Unity 5.6.5f1, Xcode 9.2, and iPhone X Simulator,
UnityEngine.iOS.Device.generation is reporting DeviceGeneration.Unknown instead of
DeviceGeneration.iPhoneX.

@protopop Your solution with SystemInfo.deviceModel should likely work. All the iPhone, iPad, and iPod model IDs are listed here: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Models

Simulator's SystemInfo.deviceModel just reports x86_64 unfortunately.

For iPhone X safe area percentages, the landscape margins are roughly:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class IphoneX {
2.  
3.     public const float SideMarginPercentage = .055f;
4.     public const float BottomMarginPercentage = .0827f;
5.  
6. }

 

I am having an error with the plugin (https://bitbucket.org/p12tic/iossafeareasplugin):


/Plugins/ios/SafeAreaImpl.mm:13:18: error: no visible @interface for 'UIView' declares the selector 'safeAreaInsets'
insets = [view safeAreaInsets];
~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

We are using Unity 5.6.3p1; but I have upgraded to the recommended 5.6.4p3 and still experience this issue.

 

Are you using latest Xcode 9.x?

 

No, that was the problem. I was using XCode 8.3.3; I have moved to XCode 9.0.1 and it now works. I tried XCode 9 a few months ago but there was a problem when I made production builds because a specific image was not set and Unity didn't provide an interface to change it.

However, I am a bit confused about the plugin; it has a canvas RectTransform variable but it never uses it?

I've applied the plugin to several canvases and panels, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem; elements are still appearing outside of the bounds where I would expect them to be.

I have also tried with some slightly modified code:

Code (CSharp):

1.     // Made these lists
2.     public List<RectTransform> canvases; // previous plugin did not have any ref
3.     public List<RectTransform> panels = new List<RectTransform>();
4.     Rect lastSafeArea = Rect.zero; // changed this to shortcut
5.  
6.     void ApplySafeArea(Rect area)
7.     {
8.         var anchorMin = area.position;
9.         var anchorMax = area.position + area.size;
10.         anchorMin.x /= Screen.width;
11.         anchorMin.y /= Screen.height;
12.         anchorMax.x /= Screen.width;
13.         anchorMax.y /= Screen.height;
14.  
15.         // Added this loop for canvases.
16.         for(int i = 0; i < canvases.Count; ++i)
17.         {
18.             canvases[i].anchorMin = anchorMin;
19.             canvases[i].anchorMax = anchorMax;
20.         }
21.  
22.         for (int i = 0; i < panels.Count; ++i)
23.         {
24.             panels[i].anchorMin = anchorMin;
25.             panels[i].anchorMax = anchorMax;
26.         }
27.      
28.         lastSafeArea = area;
29.     }

 

Also, if I went back to using Unity 5.6.3p1 is it recommended that I upgrade to 5.6.4p3? We had some build issues I didn't want to have to resolve.

 

@Mantas-Puida -- I am on Unity 5.6.5f1 and am still experiencing shadow flickering on iPhone X. I believe it is the same issue you referred to because it only happens on a11 gpu and if I turn off shadows it goes away. Is the Unity team aware that this is still an issue? Are there any other settings I need to adjust to fix? Please let me know. Thanks!

 

Hmm.. I think we are not aware about it. Please make a bugreport.

 

I am using unity 5.6.5p2 and am getting excellent results everywhere except on iphone X. The lighting rendering is completely different on iphone X - so different as to be unusable. it is two lights a directional light and then an animated spotlight. Have searched all over and can find nothing about iphone X display rendering differently. Other iOS devices are consistent and look awesome but this iphone X rendering is potentially delaying release.

any ideas?

 

Please report a bug with sample scene attached..

 

Has anyone had an issue with deviceOrientation.faceup? U have been using it for mire than a year on pre iphone 8/x without an issue.
I realize most of the talk in this thread is about rendering, but the title says support. Also, I did start a thread fir thus several days ago, but haven't had any replies there.
Using cloud build with latest 2017.2 and latest xcode.

 

Hi -
UnityEngine.iOS.DeviceGeneration.iPhoneX still not implemented?
Thanks.