Simulate 3.5" iPhone screen on iPhone 5 or iPad?

Question

I'm looking for a way to test my app on a 3.5" screen (e.g., iPhone 4S), as my test devices are an iPhone 5 (4") and iPad Air. Is there a way to do this? I've investigated the simulator, but as the app uses the music library, I've hit a bit of a dead end there.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

you can just delete the splash screens for iPhone 5 and up (called Retina 4-inch).

The App will run as letterbox app with the dimension of a iPhone 4/4S.

see How iPhone 5 + iOS6 will decide if an app must be run in letterbox mode

Answer 2

Generally, you can't do this, there's no option for this. You should keep your old devices if you do want to support them. Without them, it's quite hard to test all these things and it's a roulette ... I do this for a long time and I'm still seeing different behavior on different devices, even with the same iOS version. My only advice is - keep them if you do want to support them in your app.