u/robingenz

We're launching Capawesome Platform today, which merges Capawesome Cloud (Live Updates, Native Builds, App Store Publishing) and our Insider SDKs into a single product with one website, one onboarding flow, and one pricing system.

Feel free to check it out!

As of April 28, 2026, every app or app update submitted to App Store Connect must be built with Xcode 26 and the iOS 26 SDK (or matching SDKs for iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS). Apps already on the store keep working, but the next update has to be on the new toolchain.

For Capacitor apps, this is purely a toolchain change. Capacitor itself works fine with Xcode 26 — there's no app-side migration needed.

I just published a short write-up on what the change means and how Capawesome Cloud customers are affected. Both default build stacks (macos-sequoia and macos-tahoe) already ship Xcode 26 by default, so most builds are already compliant. The only case where action is needed is if you've pinned XCODE_VERSION=16.x via a reserved environment variable — in that case, remove the override or bump it to 26.x.

Disclosure: I work on Capawesome.

Source: https://capawesome.io/blog/xcode-26-requirement-for-capacitor-apps/