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Asked: 2026-06-13T17:27:03+00:00

I have a application that I built that was to be build as an

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I have a application that I built that was to be build as an iPhone-only application.

Now, I am told that the application has to be made universal now. I will have to make it iPad compatible too (in portrait-only mode). I have been looking for my options right now as the XIBs in this project are heavily loaded with objects so programatically assigning co-ordinates will be a pain.

I am looking for the best, and the quickest approach I should take to make this iPhone app into iPad-compatible app as well.

PS: There is no mainwindow.xib file as the application was built with XCode 4.3 which doesn’t create the MainWindow.xib file.

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I have made duplicate XIBs for iPad for all the XIBs. Now, I am trying to use the naming convention which tells me to change the filename suffix to MyiPadXIB~ipad.xib and when the app is run on iPad, it will automatically take that XIB. This doesn’t seem to be happening.

When I open the application in iPad, only a small window appears (the window that appears when iPhone-only app is run on an iPad).

Any solution to this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I followed a very easy approach where I would just create duplicate XIBs of all the XIBs by doing Build settings > target (iPhone)> right click and choose duplicate.

    I would then change the name of the duplicate xibs in this format: “iPhone XIB name”~ipad.xib.

    The system would then automatically pick up the XIB according to the device used.

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