When you upload an APK, it must meet Google Play’s target API level requirements.
Starting on August 31, 2023:
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New apps must target Android 13 (API level 33) or higher; except for Wear OS apps, which must target a version between Android 11 (API level 30) and Android 13 (API level 33), inclusive.
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App updates must target Android 13 or higher and adjust for behavioral changes in Android 13; except for Wear OS apps, which must target Android 11.
Permanently private apps—which are restricted to users in a specific organization and are intended for internal distribution only—aren’t required to meet the target API level requirements.
Having often run into problems where apps won’t download with current versions of android, is there a maxSDK too?
maxSDK is targetSDK (but there is no maxSDK per se, in a way to prevent an app to run on the latest android versions)
the dev just need to make sure that the app runs well on the latest version. That’s the goal of the Developer Previews each year
I get that it’s up to the devs to authorise it. It just seems odd that they seem to require manual review for some apps and others is just a minimum. Perhaps it’s a setting.