3.5.3 crashes on iOS

[gdt]

I tried QField on an old iPad, stuck on ios 15.8. Despite uninstalling to clear state and re-installing, it just gives a blankish screen (with Q logo) for some period of time, maybe 15s the first time, 4s on retrying, and then goes back to the launcher. Long ago I ran QField on this same iPad, not really doing anything, but not crashing. I don't know what I'm doing so putting this in DIscussions. Is anyone else seeing this?

[nirvn]

@gdt , thanks for letting us know. I believe Qt 6.8 (the library QField is built on) doesn't target 15 anymore. We should update our minimum target requirement to reflect that.

[gdt]

You mean declare that ios 15 is too old? Your project, your call, but that strikes me as unreasonably aggressive. There's a lot of perfectly good working hardware running 15.8.

[nirvn]

@gdt , we are impacted by upstream decisions such as Qt updating it's minimum target to 16 (see https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/ios.html). We'll have a look whether we can find a workaround, but there's no guarantee we will be able to find something here.

[chrigi1967]

May not be related to the above issue but like to add my recent experience trying to use QField on iPad. Fresh install of QField on iPad 8th generation running iPadOS 18.3.2. The QField project loads ok (albeit slowly) but any change of settings, selection of layer, or tapping a function crashes QField. The exact same QField project (58MB) runs smoothly without any issues on my iPhone 15. So I decided that my iPad 8th gen is not suited for QField. Anyone has a similar experience or may know what my issue is? Thanks