Xcode only lets me run for an iOS device (no simulator)

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swickblade picture swickblade · Apr 23, 2012 · Viewed 70.1k times · Source

I just cloned a project into Xcode and am trying to run it in the simulator. However, my only option is iOS Device. This is unique to this project only and I don't know how to fix it. Anyone else run into this and know how to fix it?

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Answer

Samuel Sharaf picture Samuel Sharaf · Jun 2, 2012

Under Your project Build Settings

  1. select Deployment section
  2. change iOS Deployment Target to a version iOS 5.0 or less
  3. now you can go ahead and change the deployment target from device to simulator!

In my case the deployment target was set to version 5.1 and i still am running snow leapord OS with appropriate JARS copied from xcode 4.3 to make it run with a device running iOS 5.1.

However, my simulators do not yet support version 5.1 so till i changed the deployment target to lower version e.g. 5.0 or 4.2 it won't let me run on simulator.

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