Can I make my app built with iOS7 SDK look like an iOS 6 app in iOS 7?

Question

I have an app that looks fine on iOS 6 and I'm trying to run as it is on iOS7.

Here's what I've done:

• At the project and target tab, set the deployment target to 5.1 and 5.1.1 respectively
• At the File Inspector tab of all my View Controllers, set Opens in "(Default 5.0)" and View as "iOS 6.1 and Earlier"

I have tested it on iPhone 5, 4 and 4s with iOS 7 and it works just fine. But now that I have published my app, it has the iOS 7 look and feel (and a lot of visual bugs caused by this change).

Some things that I noticed:

If I just build my app on Xcode, then later plug the device and run on it, it will have the iOS7 look and feel. But if I just build & run it directly on the device, it works perfectly (iOS 6 look and feel).

Answer 1

OK, my previous answer was wrong/out-dated.

Apple released an announcement stating that as of Feb 1st 2014 all apps running on iOS7 must be optimised for iOS 7.

This means that whether or not it is possible to make it look like iOS6 is irrelevant. If it runs on iOS7 it must be updated for iOS7.

https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=12172013a#top