Add Apple Watch to iOS app that has deployment target IOS 7

Question

When I try to add Apple Watch to my project that support IOS 7+, I get an error that in order to add Apple Watch deployment target should be minimum 8.2 When I checked instagram, it provides Apple Watch support and they support IOS 7 also. How can I add Apple Watch and at the same time run app on IOS 7 devices also.

Answer 1

Found solution to the problem. It was actually a bug in Xcode 6.3. For some reason Xcode wanted deployment target of WatchKit App (and Not our app target) to be exactly 8.2

Changing "iOS Deployment Target" field in build settings of Watchkit app target to 8.2 as mentioned here solved the issue.

Answer 2

I think you are confused between Deployment Target and Build SDK.

You can select the Deployment Target to iOS7 +

And you can also Build it using iOS 8.2 SDK

Just select the Deployment Target like this :

And the Architecture to iOS 8.2 or 8.3

You should have some deprecated warnings.

Answer 3

deployment target must be 8.2 for the apple watch app target and apple watch extention.

And make sure that the Valid Architectures have arm64 for all watch target.

Answer 4

Your deployment target can be iOS 7.0, but you'll have to build your app using the iOS 8.2 SDK or higher.