diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.ml b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
index 61203dc14..4478437d7 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.ml
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
@@ -1180,11 +1180,10 @@ and iphoneos_target_sdk_version =
     ~in_help:CLOpt.([(Capture, manual_clang_linters)])
     "Specify the target SDK version to use for iphoneos"
 
-and iphoneos_target_sdk_version_skip_path =
-  CLOpt.mk_string_list ~long:"iphoneos-target-sdk-version-skip-path"
+and iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex =
+  CLOpt.mk_string_list ~long:"iphoneos-target-sdk-version-path-regex"
     ~in_help:CLOpt.([(Capture, manual_clang_linters)])
-    ~meta:"path_prefix_OCaml_regex"
-    "To be used together with iphoneos-target-sdk-version, to disable that flag in a particular path (can be specified multiple times)"
+    "To pass a specific target SDK version to use for iphoneos in a particular path, with the format path:version (can be specified multiple times)"
 
 and issues_fields =
   CLOpt.mk_symbol_seq ~long:"issues-fields"
@@ -1840,6 +1839,20 @@ let command, parse_args_and_return_usage_exit =
 
 let print_usage_exit () = parse_args_and_return_usage_exit 1
 
+type iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex = {path: Str.regexp; version: string}
+
+let process_iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex args =
+  let process_iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex arg : iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex =
+    match String.rsplit2 ~on:':' arg with
+    | Some (path, version)
+     -> {path= Str.regexp path; version}
+    | None
+     -> failwithf
+          "Incorrect format for the option iphoneos-target-sdk_version-path-regex. The correct format is path:version but got %s"
+          arg
+  in
+  List.map ~f:process_iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex args
+
 (** Freeze initialized configuration values *)
 
 let anon_args = !anon_args
@@ -2023,7 +2036,8 @@ and infer_cache = !infer_cache
 
 and iphoneos_target_sdk_version = !iphoneos_target_sdk_version
 
-and iphoneos_target_sdk_version_skip_path = !iphoneos_target_sdk_version_skip_path
+and iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex =
+  process_iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex !iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex
 
 and issues_fields = !issues_fields
 
diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.mli b/infer/src/base/Config.mli
index f41c8ff03..22b5a96b8 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.mli
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.mli
@@ -424,7 +424,9 @@ val infer_cache : string option
 
 val iphoneos_target_sdk_version : string option
 
-val iphoneos_target_sdk_version_skip_path : string list
+type iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex = {path: Str.regexp; version: string}
+
+val iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex : iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex list
 
 val issues_fields :
   [ `Issue_field_bug_class
diff --git a/infer/src/clang/cPredicates.ml b/infer/src/clang/cPredicates.ml
index 46df3e56a..aab762c1c 100644
--- a/infer/src/clang/cPredicates.ml
+++ b/infer/src/clang/cPredicates.ml
@@ -492,25 +492,21 @@ let is_class an re =
   | _
    -> false
 
-let should_use_iphoneos_target_sdk_version =
-  let f =
-    ( lazy
-    ( match Config.iphoneos_target_sdk_version_skip_path with
-    | []
-     -> fun _ -> true
-    | _ :: _ as skip_paths
-     -> (* pre-compute the regexp because it is expensive *)
-        let paths_regexp = String.concat ~sep:"\\|" skip_paths |> Str.regexp in
-        (* return a closure so that the regexp is computed only once *)
-        fun {CLintersContext.translation_unit_context= {source_file}} ->
-          not (ALVar.str_match_forward (SourceFile.to_rel_path source_file) paths_regexp) ) )
+let iphoneos_target_sdk_version_by_path (cxt: CLintersContext.context) =
+  let source_file = cxt.translation_unit_context.source_file in
+  let regex_version_opt =
+    List.find Config.iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex ~f:
+      (fun (version_path_regex: Config.iphoneos_target_sdk_version_path_regex) ->
+        ALVar.str_match_forward (SourceFile.to_rel_path source_file) version_path_regex.path )
   in
-  fun ctx -> Lazy.force f ctx
+  match regex_version_opt with
+  | Some version_by_regex
+   -> Some version_by_regex.version
+  | None (* no version by path specified, use default version *)
+   -> Config.iphoneos_target_sdk_version
 
 let decl_unavailable_in_supported_ios_sdk (cxt: CLintersContext.context) an =
-  let config_iphoneos_target_sdk_version =
-    if should_use_iphoneos_target_sdk_version cxt then Config.iphoneos_target_sdk_version else None
-  in
+  let config_iphoneos_target_sdk_version = iphoneos_target_sdk_version_by_path cxt in
   let allowed_os_versions =
     match
       (config_iphoneos_target_sdk_version, (cxt.if_context : CLintersContext.if_context option))
diff --git a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/objc/ioslints/Makefile b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/objc/ioslints/Makefile
index 64b6be192..658ae508d 100644
--- a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/objc/ioslints/Makefile
+++ b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/objc/ioslints/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ CLANG_OPTIONS = -x objective-c \
 ANALYZER = linters
 INFER_OPTIONS = --no-filtering --debug-exceptions --project-root $(TESTS_DIR) \
 --iphoneos-target-sdk-version 8.0 \
---iphoneos-target-sdk-version-skip-path "codetoanalyze/objc/ioslints/filter_out_unavailable_api\.m" \
+--iphoneos-target-sdk-version-path-regex "codetoanalyze/objc/ioslints/filter_out_unavailable_api\.m:10.0" \
 --no-keep-going
 INFERPRINT_OPTIONS = --issues-tests