Unity 5.0 can't build for iOS 5?

I make a backup of an app I'm updating, opened it in Unity 5.0

After getting some changes done, I built the project, but Xcode can't install it on an iPad one because it give me the error "#error please target iOS 6.0 or newer"

Do I have to downgrade back to Unity 4.6 now for updating older apps now?

 

The minimum target iOS version for Unity 5 is iOS 6.0. If you want to bulid your app for older versions you will need to keep using Unity 4.x

 

Thanks for confirming. I didn't see anything that stated Unity 5.0 won't support iOS earlier than 6.0.
If I had, I wouldn't have spent the last day updating this app on it.

Having to keep two versions of Unity is going to be a pain.

 

Just an FYI, according to Unity's stats (found here) users with less than iOS 6 total less than 1% of users.

 

When you update an app, Apple requires you to support whatever iOS's it ran on was when you first sold it.

A new app, I won't bother supporting iOS 6. But I have apps that have been selling since iOS 4.3. If I update them, I they still have to work on iOS's from 4.3 to 8.1.3.

 

That's not true; I updated an app recently which probably originally ran on iOS 3 or 4, but now it requires iOS 6 or higher.

--Eric

 

Are you sure about that?

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1623/_index.html

 

Edit: not relevant

 

@Eric5h5 my reply was directed at @Mark Sweeney, after I saw you posted I edited my post to make this clearer.

 

Oh, that makes more sense.

--Eric

 

On the same page:

I've accidentally set the minimum iOS higher than 4.3, and had the app rejected by Apple - I've been told it has to support devices it originally sold on.

It's a royal pain to keep testing updates on iPad 1 & iPod Touch 3

 

Something's not right there because I have a number of apps by other companies that I can't upgrade because the upgrade doesn't support the old iOS version I'm running on some devices.

 

You should finish the rest of that quote...

If a user is not running a current version of iOS, they are not required to be supported.

EDIT: More info:

 

I've emailed Apple support. I'd love to drop support for anything prior to iOS 6. Do one final round of updates that do support earlier, then only support iOS 6 and above with future updates.

A number of headaches would be gone.