How are we supposed to get Ipad screenshots for our store, without having an Ipad? haha

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Created Mar ’25

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Hello, I am making my first app in appstore, I have an iphone I was able to run the app there and take screenshots, but It feels I am obligated to also get an ipad eventhough I don't use/need it much? Is there any other authorized way to get the screenshots for your app in an Ipad?

Or is mandatory to get an Ipad to build Iphone apps? (Unless I did not select the rigth settings and I could somehow deselect the ipad screenshots sections?)

By the way slight observation, is it me or the forum seems to be buggy and slow? I ma opening pages and it gets "error failed to download page etc"

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darkpaw OP

Mar ’25

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If your app is supposed to work on an iPad then you need to provide screenshots for the iPad. You can do this by building and running on an iPad Simulator on your Mac.

If your app is not going to support the iPad then you need to load your project in Xcode, and remove the platforms it doesn't support. This is done in the General tab of the project view's targets. You know there this is? In the left-hand list of your prject's files, the very top blue item is your project name. Click that, and the right-hand side shows your project and a list of targets. Click the targets one by one and remove the iPad from there.

You'll need to rebuild the project and confirm it all works, and submit it to App Store Connect. You shouldn't need to add iPad screenshots then.

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Claude31 OP

Mar ’25

I have an iPhone I was able to run the app there and take screenshots,

Why would you take screenshots on the iPhone device ?

That's not the way to do it.

Just run the app from Xcode in a simulator (iPhone 6.9", iPhone 6.5" and iPad 13"), command-S to capture the screenshot you need, and you're done.

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