iOS Question When and why to use #MinVersion?

[Sandman]

I'm in the process of updating an old app, and moving it onto B4XPages. And while doing that I saw that I had this in Main, in the old app:

#MinVersion: 8

For some stupid reason I didn't document at the time why that seemed like a good idea, and my mental cache has been purged many times since I last saw this code so I have no idea what this is about.

I'm very tempted to simply remove that number and see if anything bad happens. Let's say nothing bad seems to happen during my testing, can I then assume that I simply didn't need that directive or that value? Or could it be that something bad will happen for some other users?

 

[Ertan]

MinimumOSVersion | Apple Developer Documentation

The minimum version of the operating system required for the app to run in iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

developer.apple.com

They want this parameter when installing the application in the app store, and I think it is mandatory.

Previously, he said that he was using #MinVersion because it does not support Apple Authentication for my iPhone 5 device, and the apple store is also not supported for these devices. Later, I made an edit for iPhone 5 devices using other methods.

 

[Erel]

The default value is 7. I would say that there is no reason to set it to be lower than 11. Such devices are very rare now.