TestFlight support for ios7 and older?

Question

TestFlight is scheduled to shutdown on Feb 26 of this year (2015). They have now set up testflight to work through the developer portal. However it looks like it may only work for iOS8.

TestFlight can be used to test iOS apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch running iOS 8 or later.

Does this mean there will not be testflight support for ios7 or ios6? Previously I loved testflight because I don't own an ios6 device or every size of iphone, but I have friends that do that can test them for me.

Is there a solution for sending a beta app to someone that is running ios6 or 7 (or even ios5)?

Answer 1

We switched from TF to another solution once they annonced they were not going to support Android any more. And now I see clearly that it was a very right decision.

Going back to your question. No, they don't support any iOS version older than iOS 8. So there are no chances to test on iOS 7 or iOS6 with TestFlight.

However, there are lots of solutions that provide biuld distribution for iOS 7 and older. Here are three the most useful and stable:

1. Ubertesters ( http://ubertesters.com/ )
2. Applause ( http://www.applause.com/mobile-sdk )
3. HockeyApp ( http://www.hockeyapp.com/ )
4. Crachlitics ( https://try.crashlytics.com/ )

In our company we use Ubertesters today by 3 reasons:

• It supports Android and iOS 7;
• They have unique in-app bug submitionfeature which we were not able to fid anywhere else (you can make and edit screenshots of bug within the app)
• We use their beta testers.

However, it's a very personal point of view, so you might wish to make a quick research on all 4 solutions and find what exactly suits your development and testing needs.

Answer 2

To my understanding with testFlight no. Apple wants to shift all testings to iOS 8 on iTunesConnect

But you can use Diawi, it is a beta testing service that you can install the app with a link, but you still need to add the UUID's of the devices.