Failed to install "iOS 6.1 Simulator" XCode 5

amone picture amone · Aug 1, 2013 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

I want to run my app on both simulators ios6 and ios7. I'm trying to install ios 6 simulator but I am getting this error:

Failed to install "iOS 6.1 Simulator"
An unknown error occured. Please try again later.

I restarted XCode but not working stil..

Answer

Alexey F picture Alexey F · Sep 11, 2013

Try to reset iOS 6.1 simulator from menu "iOS Simulator -> Reset Content and Settings...",

then run your app in XCode. This helped me.