Run a universal app as a 'legacy' iPhone app on an iPad

Question

I do most development testing on my iPad. When I test an iPhone app, it runs in 'compatibility' mode where the little iPhone app runs in a small window or x2 magnification. Now that I've created a universal app it runs as a native iPad app. For testing I'd like to use the simulated iPhone when I don't have an iPhone handy for testing.

How can I build the project so that the iPad will run the app in compatibility mode?

Answer 1

You can't. If the target is 3.2 SDK, then it will always run the simulator as an iPad. So your options are to debug on a device, or configure your app to be build under 3.1.3 so that the simulator will be an iPhone (too much trouble and unreliable).

Or hope for a later release with the option.

Answer 2

Turns out it was really simple

• Get Info for the project target
• Change Targeted Device Family to iPhone