Minimum requirements

Before you begin developing with the HERE SDK, it's important to know the minimum requirements. Meeting these requirements will help ensure an optimal performance for your location-aware applications.

Supported versions

• The HERE SDK for iOS supports iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 or higher.
• Only simulators running iOS 15.2 or higher are supported.
• As an absolute minimum for development, you must use Mac OS Ventura and Xcode 16.2 - or higher. Note that lower versions may still work, but are not guaranteed to work.
• The accompanying example apps have been developed using Xcode 16.4.
• For recommended device hardware specifications, please check the section below.

Supported devices

• The HERE SDK supports iOS ARM64 / 64-bit architectures incorporating Apple's A7 chip or newer. This means that all iOS devices starting from the iPhone 5s (which was released in 2013) are supported as all these devices contain sufficient RAM and CPU/GPU power.
• The x86_64 and simulator-arm64 architecture is supported for simulators. Therefore, this includes M1 and non-M1 machines.
• It is recommended to allow at least 60 MB disk space for the uncompressed installation size of an app plus 256 MB to cache map data on the disk.

Note that certain features may require additional capabilities. Conversely, some features may require fewer capabilities. For example, when the HERE SDK is used headlessly, without displaying a map view, no GPU support is necessary.