What is armv7s?

Question

This seems to be a new option in newer XCode - instead of \"armv6 armv7\" under Valid architectures I now see \"armv7 armv7s\". What is armv7s and do I need to build for it

Answer 1

The iPhone 5 will ship with and only run iOS 6.0. To coincide with the launch of iOS 6.0, Apple has seeded developers with a newer version of its development tools. Xcode 4.5 makes two major changes: it drops support for the ARMv6 ISA (used by the ARM11 core in the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G), keeps support for ARMv7 (used by modern ARM cores) and it adds support for a new architecture target designed to support the new A6 SoC: armv7s.

Answer 2

armv7s is the architecture of the A6 processor in the iPhone 5. And yes, you need to include this as well. With the latest version of Xcode, support for armv6 is dropped.

Answer 3

You do not have to build for armv7s to add support for the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 can run armv7 compiled code as well. My app has just been submitted to the store and it is build on armv7 only and working perfect!