Some Macs recently received a macOS system update which disabled the simulator runtimes used by Xcode 15, including the simulators for iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS. If your Mac received this update, you will receive the following error message and will be unable to use the simulator: The com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-17-2 simulator runtime is not available. Domain: com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError Code: 401 Failure Reason: runtime profile not found using "System" match policy Recovery Suggestion: Download the com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-17-2 simulator runtime from the Xcode To resume using the simulator, please reboot your Mac. After rebooting, check Xcode Preferences → Platforms to ensure that the simulator runtime you would like to use is still installed. If it is missing, use the Get button to download it again. The Xcode 15.3 Release Notes are also updated with this information.

Hi. Today we upgraded to Xcode 27 and installed the iOS 27 runtime component. Now storyboards cannot be opened. Xcode only displays "Loading iOS 27.0..." Besides, we cannot create simulators either. iOS 27 runtime appears missing even though it is installed. We tried removing and reinstalling the runtime but it didn't work. Right now all development came to a halt. Please help.

I am running Tahoe 26.4.1 on a MacBook Air, M4, 2025. In System Settings, I have an item heading of Software Update Available. Clicking on that brings up "Command Line Tools for Xcode 26.4". The only available choices are to Update Now or Cancel. In the past, I was developing a game, but have quit working on that, and deleted Xcode and Command Line Tools. Wanting the "Command Line Tools ..." line to disappear from System Settings, I called Apple Support, and at their request have followed the steps in "https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/installing-the-command-line-tools" to delete this entry in System Settings, namely the 2 sudo's in that article under the section "Uninstall the command line tools". This did not cause the "Command Line Tools for Xcode 26.4" line in System Settings to disappear (as I was told by Apple support that it would, because I would be deleting the receipt). In Terminal, I did indeed receive a response of "No receipt for 'com.apple.dt.commandlinetools' found at '/'.". I have called developer support, but the individual I spoke with had no useful guidance on how to finish this issue, except to post to the Forum. I would appreciate any guidance on how to delete the "Command Line Tools ..." entry from System Settings.

I am using Coding Intelligence, powered by Claude, in the first production release of Xcode 27.0 (in MacOS 26.7). Initially it was working ok. But after less than a day, it now crashes every time it needs to ask for permission for any shell command. And each time I restart things, it burns through a ton of tokens. ☹️ Any suggestions? (I'll file a bug report right now…)

How to download iOS 27.0 Universal simulator in Xcode 27.0 Beta 1 ? xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS -exportPath ~/Downloads -architectureVariant universal -buildVersion 27.0 Finding content... iOS 27.0 (universal) is not available for download.

I have a project that builds fine in macOS 26 with Xcode 26. On macOS 27 b4 and Xcode beta, the same project can't build because of a framework that should be pulled from a Swift Package from a package-registry (named Registry, for example below), hosted on JFrog. I have the registry set up and have the token in keychain. The resolution of the packages works. But when I build, I get error like this: error: Missing package product 'Registry.Package_Package.Package' (in target 'Target' from project 'Project') . The real package should just be 'Registry.Package'. Any help with that? Is it a bug?

I have a problem downloading Xcode components like Metal Toolchain or Developer Documentation. The action stuck with the status "Preparing to download". The symptoms started several weeks ago. I noticed this when my copy of Xcode 27 beta stopped showing the developer documentation. Strangely, when I re-launched Xcode it insists to download the Developer Documentation and keep showing "Preparing to download" while other components like Metal Toolchain, when I quit Xcode, it cancels the component download and that component status reverts to "Get". The symptoms continue thru the released version of Xcode27. Does anyone know the cure?

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a very slow Flutter iOS Simulator build after upgrading to macOS 27.0 and Xcode 27.0. System: MacBook Air M2 macOS 27.0 (26A428) Xcode 27.0 (27A266a) Flutter 3.47.3 (stable) Dart 3.13.3 iOS 27.0 Simulator Simulator: iPhone 17 Pro Max Flutter Doctor reports: [✓] Flutter [✓] Android toolchain [✓] Xcode [✓] Connected device [✓] Network resources • No issues found! The physical iPhone 17 launches the same Flutter app normally, but launching on the iOS Simulator is extremely slow. When I run: bash flutter run -d "iPhone 17 Pro Max" I get: Launching lib/main.dart on iPhone 17 Pro Max in debug mode... Running Xcode build... Xcode build done. 769.6s That's approximately 12 minutes and 50 seconds just for the Xcode build. The simulator is detected correctly by Flutter, so this doesn't appear to be a device detection issue. I have also installed Rosetta 2 because Flutter initially reported an architecture error with iproxy. Has anyone else experienced extremely slow Flutter/Xcode builds on the iOS 27 Simulator after upgrading to macOS 27/Xcode 27? Is there a known workaround or issue with the new Simulator/Device Hub? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

The iOS 17 simulator does not respond at all when I try to interact with it. The simulator is not frozen as I can still control appearance and launch apps via the right sidebar. Things like the home button and clicking on the screen simply don’t work. I am using Xcode 27 beta 6. Feedback ID: FB24674634

I am not sure if it's from Xcode or macOS 27, but here is what I get after running df: /dev/disk3s3 228Gi 1.5Gi 15Gi 9% 112 161M 0% /Volumes/Recovery devices -- file:///Users/USER/Library/Containers/com.apple.CoreDevice.CoreDeviceService/Data/ 1.0Ti 0Bi 1.0Ti 0% 0 9.2E 0% /Users/USER/Library/Developer/CoreDevice/DeviceFS It's really annoying. Is there any way to remove this?

Everything has been updated. Countless reboots and reinstalls. Yet Xcode still won't open. Keep getting "Xcode quit unexpectedly dialog" with buttons to Reopen, Ignore, Report. Any suggestions on what lingering file is killing Xcode on open? Thanks!

It has been two years since I wrote my a SwiftUI app, and I wanted to start again in Xcode 26. I can no longer see the attributes inspector when I select an element in the canvas. This was an Xcode feature that was very helpful as I am still a novice. Has this feature been deprecated in Xcode 26? And if not, please help explain how I can find and use it.

Tried to execute our XCUITest test suite with XCode 27b6. The test plan is set to run in parallel. When executing tests locally with XCode 26, I can see the clone simulators executing the test (which is useful for debugging the test). With XCode 27b6 and Device Hub, I do not see the clone simulators executing, nor do I see a setting or menu item in Device Hub to show those clone simulators. There is no equivalent to the "Show Parallel Testing Devices" menu item in the XCode 26 sim. Am I missing something or is this a regression in XCode 27?

I just saw the following in the Xcode 27 release notes: Xcode can now serve asset packs to your app while debugging on devices by setting a Background Asset Packs folder in the Run scheme action’s Options tab. (165230494) And sure enough, the option is there. But what do I need to point this to? I tried everything: the path to the built .aar asset pack the path to the .json manifest file the path to the download-manifest.json (for self-hosted asset packs) the path to the directory that actually contains the assets (as also referenced by the manifest file) the path to the directory that contains the manifest file and the asset directory. Nothing works. I always get the same errors on the console: Checking for updates failed: DecodingError.dataCorrupted: Data was corrupted. Debug description: The given data was not valid JSON.. Underlying error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected end of file" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected end of file} The asset pack with the ID “MyID” couldn’t be looked up: DecodingError.dataCorrupted: Data was corrupted. Debug description: The given data was not valid JSON.. Underlying error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected end of file" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected end of file} The manifest couldn’t be refreshed: DecodingError.dataCorrupted: Data was corrupted. Debug description: The given data was not valid JSON.. Underlying error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected end of file" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected end of file} I'm testing on a physical iPhone. Any advice would be appreciated!

How do you add custom macOS target properties in a SwiftUI Multi-platform target? I only see custom iOS target properties. I want to add keys such as BAAppGroupID, but only for macOS.

Apple M1 Pro, 26.5.1 (25F80) XCode 27.0 Beta (27A5194q) Command Line tools for Xcode 27 are installed. Device Hub Version 27.0 (235.4.2) Within device hub I can not create iOS 27 simulators. Only the 26.5 simulators are listed there. I installed the iOS 27.0 SDK. Also deleted and reinstalled it. The computer was restarted. No change. I am unable to create the proper iOS 27 Simulators. Any idea why this is not working? Thanks for the help upfront.

Hi, I have listed below the Feedbacks for Xcode 27, please have a look at it, considerable time was spent on filing these feedbacks, thanks! Environments All of them were tested on the environment: macOS 26.5.1 (25F80) Xcode 27.0 beta (27A5194q) Feedbacks FB23133706 (Git stage tab) FB23132869 (markdown - code block) FB23132403 (markdown - search) FB23078039 (stash - slow / unresponsive) FB23077930 (stash - allow multiselection) FB23055381 (Run destination - Clear recents) FB23041713 (SwiftUI preview - SwiftData) FB23033844 (Bundle ID) FB23033231 (Device Hub - sizes)

Environment Xcode 27.0 (Build 27A5194q) macOS 27.0 (Build 26A5353q), Apple Silicon Command Line Tools 27.0 Summary The iOS 27.0 (24A5355p) and watchOS 27.0 (24R5289n) Simulator runtimes download and mount successfully, but never register as usable. Both fail in exactly the same way. Every older runtime (e.g. iOS 26.2 / 23C54) works fine. What I see xcrun simctl list runtimes does NOT list iOS 27 or watchOS 27. They appear only under xcrun simctl runtime list (disk images), as: iOS 27.0 (24A5355p) State: Ready Image Kind: Patchable Cryptex Disk Image Signature State: Unknown Mount Path: /private/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/mnt/... They never get promoted to /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/ the way working runtimes do. Where it actually breaks simdiskimaged finds and mounts the runtime with no error: "Found runtime bundle on disk image at: .../iOS 27.0.simruntime" "Got supported architectures back ... arm64" The runtime IS present in /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images/images.plist, and its cryptex personalization manifest exists in /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Cryptex/Personalization/. BUT iOS 27 (24A5355p) and watchOS 27 (24R5289n) are the ONLY two images in the index whose signatureState is not verified. Every other runtime shows signatureState => verified. CoreSimulatorService therefore never registers them. So the cryptex mounts and the personalization ticket is present, but signature verification against that manifest never completes for these two new runtimes. Things I have already tried (no change) Deleted and re-downloaded the runtime via xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS (fresh image, identical result) Restarted CoreSimulatorService; ran sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch Full reboot (cryptex re-mounts at boot but is still never verified/promoted) Deleted images.plist and let it rebuild Verified: system clock correct; gs.apple.com and ppq.apple.com reachable on 443; ~85 GB free disk; iphoneos27.0 SDK build (24A5355p) matches the downloaded runtime; simctl runtime match list shows 24A5355p as the chosen/default runtime. The standalone Simulator runtime .dmg for iOS 27 is not yet on Developer Downloads, so xcrun simctl runtime add isn't an option. Questions Is anyone else seeing iOS 27 / watchOS 27 runtimes stuck at Signature State: Unknown / signatureState != verified on this beta? Is there a way to force re-verification of an already-downloaded cryptex runtime without a standalone .dmg? Is this a known issue in the current beta? (FB filed.) Thanks!

On iOS 27 beta / Xcode 27.0, PDFDocument.write(to:) no longer serializes destinations for link annotations that are created at runtime. The annotation and its PDFActionGoTo action are both written, but the destination's page reference is not, so every internal link is dead. This worked correctly on iOS 26. PDFs generated on iOS 26 still navigate correctly; the same code on iOS 27 beta produces PDFs whose links are all dead.

Hi all I have an app I’m pretty much done with, and on the Xcode simulator it works perfectly and the IAP shows us when the purchase buttons are clicked but for some reason when it goes to testflight none of the buttons respond, is there any reason that would cause it to behave differently in testflight when its coded correctly and works in the simulator. thanks

Hi Apple, I’m exploring the built-in MCP support in Xcode 27 and noticed that the available Xcode MCP tools don’t seem to provide a way for an agent to manage Swift Package dependencies. For example, an agent can inspect and modify source code, build the project, run tests, and diagnose build issues. However, I haven’t found an MCP tool that allows the agent to perform operations such as: Add a Swift Package dependency to an Xcode project Remove a Swift Package dependency Add/remove a package product from a target Change the version/branch/revision requirement of a package dependency For example, I’d like to be able to give an agent an instruction such as: Add https://github.com/xxx/SomePackage.git to the project, use version 1.2.0 or later, and link the SomePackage product to the MyApp target. At the moment, it appears that the agent can identify that the package is missing when compilation fails, but it cannot actually perform the package configuration step through the Xcode MCP tools. Is Swift Package dependency management intentionally not exposed through Xcode MCP at this time? If it is not currently supported, are there plans to expose APIs/tools for managing: Package dependencies Package products Target-package relationships Package version requirements This would be particularly useful for coding agents, since adding a dependency is a common part of an otherwise automated development workflow. I've submitted a request to feedback, the id is FB24676163. Thanks!