Apps for iOS must support iPhone X screen from July

Developers who release apps for iOS or want to update their existing apps will be required to include support for the iPhone X’s notch screen from July. Presumably all new iPhones released by Apple this year have a notch.

Apps and updates may no longer show black bars on the screen of the iPhone X from July. The full screen must then be used. Also, all apps must be made with the iOS 11 SDK from July. Apple reports the requirements on its developer portal. At the beginning of this year, Apple already indicated in an email to developers that by April apps must offer support for the notch. That deadline seems to have been pushed back.

From July, not all apps will immediately support the iPhone X screen. Developers are not obliged to modify current apps. Only if they want to release an update for an existing app, should there also be support for the screen with the notch at the top.

Apple’s requirement for new apps and updates strengthens suspicions that the manufacturer will release more models with a notch in the screen this year. Apple is rumored to present three iPhones with notch in September this year; it would be a 6.1″ model with LCD and two variants with OLED screens of 6.5″ and 5.8″.