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.
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I've recently installed 26.1 Beta 3 alongside stable 26.0.1
When building my app with 26.0.1 the final .ipa size is ~17mb, however after building my app with 26.1 Beta 3 the size has increased up to ~22mb
The main difference is Assets.car blowing from 1.1mb to 5.6mb (or 8.6mb if I include all icons settings). Upon examining I've found new liquid glass .icon file duplicating itself multiple times as png variants (any, dark, tinted, etc).
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
I am using SwiftData for my model. Until Xcode 15 beta 4 I did not have issues. Since beta 5 I am receiving the following red warning multiple times:
'NSKeyedUnarchiveFromData' should not be used to for un-archiving and will be removed in a future release
This seems to be a CoreData warning. However, I am not using CoreData directly. I have no way to change the config of CoreData as used by SwiftData.
My model just uses UUID, Int, String, Double, some of them as optionals or Arrays. I only use one attribute (.unique).
"EnableLiveAssetServerV2-com.apple.MobileAsset.MetalToolchain" = on;
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 26.0.1
BuildVersion: 25A362
The MetalToolchain is installed, however I keep getting error that MetalToolchain cannot be found by the Xcode
"Command CompileMetalFile failed with a nonzero exit code"
error: error: cannot execute tool 'metal' due to missing Metal Toolchain; use: xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain
❯ xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain
2025-10-31 11:18:29.004 xcodebuild[6605:45524] IDEDownloadableMetalToolchainCoordinator: Failed to remount the Metal Toolchain: The file “com.apple.MobileAsset.MetalToolchain-v17.1.324.0.k9JmEp” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
Beginning asset download...
2025-10-31 11:18:29.212 xcodebuild[6605:45523] IDEDownloadableMetalToolchainCoordinator: Failed to remount the Metal Toolchain: The file “com.apple.MobileAsset.MetalToolchain-v17.1.324.0.k9JmEp” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.
Downloaded asset to: /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_MetalToolchain/4ab058bc1c53034b8c0a9baca6fba2d2b78bb965.asset/AssetData/Restore/022-17211-415.dmg
Done downloading: Metal Toolchain 17A324.
I often use a Wi-Fi network where:
Whatever mechanism Xcode uses to automatically discover a previously paired iOS device seems to be blocked (the Devices and Simulators window shows "Browsing on the local area network for [iPhone]" and never proceeds), but
I can connect to the iOS device from my Mac if I know its IP address, such as by pinging it
The same hardware/software configuration works with wireless Xcode connections on a different Wi-Fi network.
Thus I'm wondering if there's any functionality that allows the IP address to be manually entered into Xcode to avoid needing to connect a cable from my Mac to my iPhone during development. Searching around seems to suggest this existed at some point in the past but I can no longer find this in a current version of Xcode. Or if there are any other workarounds, although I can't modify the network itself as it's not my network.
Using Xcode to build and deploy the app to my watch, this is what I get:
“Waiting to reconnect to Apple Watch. Previous preparation error: Transport error." And then “Connecting to Apple Watch. Xcode will continue when the operation completes.”
And these messages continue to switch between each other.
Sometimes the watch to connect and the application starts, but more often a scenario occurs with endless reconnection.
I'm using: MacOS 14.4.1 (MacBook Pro 2019; 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5), Xcode 15.3, Watch OS 10.2 (Apple Watch SE 1), iOS 17.1.1 (iPhone 15 Pro).
Methods I tried:
Connecting Macbook, iPhone and Watch to the same WIfi network;
Disabling Watch (and IPhone) from the "Devices and Simulators" menu and setting up Watch (and IPhone) from the beginning.
Any help?
I didn't run benchmarks before update, but it seems at least 5x slower. Of course all the LLM work is on remote servers, so is non-intuitive to me this should be happening.
Had updated MacOS and Xcode to 26.1RC at the same time, so can't even say I think it is MacOS or I think it is Xcode.
Before the update the progress indicator for each piece of code might seem to get stuck at the very end (and toggling between Navigators and Coding Assistant) in Xcode UI seemed to refresh the UI and confirm coding complete... but now it seems progress races to 50%, then often is stuck at 75%... well earlier than used to get stuck. And it like something is legitimately processing not just a UI glitch.
I'm wondering if this is somehow tied to visual rendering of the code in the little white window? CMD-TAB into Xcode seems laggy. Xcode is pinning a CPU. Why, this is all remote LLM work?
MacBook Pro 2021 M1 64GB RAM. Went from 26.01 to 26.1RC. Didn't touch any of the betas until RC1.
In my code, I used the newly added class AssetPackManager in Xcode 26. When compiling with Xcode 16, it would report an error saying "Cannot find 'AssetPackManager' in scope". Swift cannot use __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED. How to solve this problem?
Since Xcode 26 our tests are crashing due to the Main Thread not being able to deallocate WKNavigationResponse.
Following an example:
import Foundation
import WebKit
final class WKNavigationResponeMock: WKNavigationResponse {
private let urlResponse: URLResponse
override var response: URLResponse { urlResponse }
init(urlResponse: URLResponse) {
self.urlResponse = urlResponse
super.init()
}
convenience init(httpUrlResponse: HTTPURLResponse) {
self.init(urlResponse: httpUrlResponse)
}
convenience init?(url: URL, statusCode: Int) {
guard let httpURLResponse = HTTPURLResponse(url: url, statusCode: statusCode, httpVersion: nil, headerFields: nil) else {
return nil
}
self.init(httpUrlResponse: httpURLResponse)
}
}
import WebKit
import XCTest
final class ExampleTests: XCTestCase {
@MainActor func testAllocAndDeallocWKNavigationResponse() {
let expectedURL = URL(string: "https://galaxus.ch/")!
let expectedStatusCode = 404
let instance = WKNavigationResponeMock()
// here it should dealloc/deinit `instance` automatically
}
Here the call stack:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 CoreFoundation 0x101f3dd54 CFRetain.cold.1 + 16
1 CoreFoundation 0x101e14860 CFRetain + 104
2 WebKit 0x10864dd24 -[WKNavigationResponse dealloc] + 52
Xcode SPM (Swift Package Manager) Error
I added the "Apple App Store Server Swift Library" library to Xcode using Swift Package Manager.
Both the project and target are set to iOS 14 or higher.
However, when I build after adding the library, an error occurs with the library.
A message appears stating that the target is set to iOS 12.
I'm using Xcode 26.0.1.
Even after adding it to all my projects, the build continues with the same error.
I've tried building the library from version 1.0.0 to the latest version, but the same error persists.
Even after completely cleaning the project and running it, the same error persists.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
In Xcode I've:
select Product / Scheme / Edit scheme
tap on Archive on the left hand side of the
select post actions and + to add a new script
Then in there I have added a script I want to run on the archive after its created.
I'd like to be able to see the output the script churns out as it goes along but doesn't seem possible?
If I just add something like echo "hello" to the start of the script then I don't see "hello" visible anywhere when I build an archive (via Product/Archive).
I'm looking in the build navigator. Is there somewhere else to look or is it possible to get the logging into the navigator?
dSYM size became thrice for builds generated via xcode 26 compared to xcode 16. These are all release builds.
Hello
Xcode 26.0.1 (17A400) Missing some Metal components
When building a program using Metal, it induces an unexpected error :
“error: error: cannot execute tool 'metal' due to missing Metal Toolchain; use: xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain
Command CompileMetalFile failed with a nonzero exit code”
Which terminates the build
The fix given “xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain” using sudo does not work
Did someone find a work around or could resolve the issue?
Many thanks
Jean
MacBook Air M4;
macOS 26.0.1;
Xcode 26.0.1
Our project plans to upgrade Xcode from 16.2 to Xcode 26. We’ve noticed that the information on https://developer.apple.com/support/xcode/ states that the Deployment Targets for Xcode 26 supports iOS 15–26.1.
However, the Deployment Targets for our current project is set to iOS 13. Does this mean that we must set the project’s Deployment Targets to iOS 15 or higher if we want to upgrade to Xcode 26? Can we still set the Deployment Targets to iOS 13? If we upgrade to Xcode 26 and set the Deployment Targets to iOS 13, will there be any problems?
Hello,
I'm encountering a persistent issue when building my project with Xcode 26 and iOS 26. The console shows errors related to font file references that don't actually exist in my project.
After investigation, I found that the issue originates from XIB files incorrectly referencing HiraginoKakuGothic.ttc:
<customFonts key="customFonts">
<array key="HiraginoKakuGothic.ttc">
<string>HiraginoSans-W3</string>
</array>
</customFonts>
The problem appears to be triggered when setting UILabel fonts to "ヒラギノ角ゴシック W3 16.0" in Interface Builder, which causes the XIB to reference HiraginoKakuGothic.ttc.
Interestingly, when I create a new project and use the same fonts ("ヒラギノ角ゴシック W3 16.0"), it does NOT automatically reference HiraginoKakuGothic.ttc.
Here's what I've tried:
①Changed both UILabels' fonts to system font
②Verified in XIB Source Code that the .ttc references were gone
③Cleaned Build Folder
④Cleared DerivedData
⑤Restarted Xcode
⑥Set the labels back to "ヒラギノ角ゴシック W3 16.0"
⑦Checked XIB Source Code again - the non-existent .ttc references reappeared
Even if I manually remove the customFonts references from the source code, they get regenerated as soon as I make any font changes in Interface Builder.
I've also noticed that Xcode 16.1 has the same underlying issue, though it doesn't produce the console errors that Xcode 26 does.
This seems to be a long-standing XIB issue, possibly related to reference caching. While new projects aren't affected, existing projects continue to maintain these incorrect references.
My questions:
How can I permanently resolve this issue in my existing project?
What's the potential impact of these incorrect font references?
Is there a way to clean up these cached references without affecting the rest of the project?
Any insights or workarounds would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Hello,
I'm experiencing consistent crashes of XCPreviewAgent when using Xcode Previews on macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe (25A362).
Configuration:
macOS: 26.0.1 (25A362) - stable release
Xcode: 16.0 (23.0.54) - stable release
Hardware: MacBook Pro M4
Project: SwiftUI iOS app
Issue:
Every time I try to use Xcode Previews, XCPreviewAgent crashes with:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Subtype: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000340e54000
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 10, Bus error: 10
The crash occurs in shared memory region during dynamic library loading.
What I've tried:
Cleared all caches: rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
Deleted Preview data: rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/Previews
Reset simulators: xcrun simctl --set previews delete all
Switched xcode-select to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
Tried both Xcode stable and Xcode beta
Created fresh simulators
Clean build (Cmd+Shift+K)
Rebooted Mac multiple times
The app runs fine on simulator (Cmd+R), but Previews consistently crash.
We are experiencing troubles in our organization when we want to debug iOS applications on physical iPhones and iPads. Our iPhones (iPhone 16e, iOS 18.5) are not recognized by Xcode 16.4, but in the Finder they show up fine using the USB cable. We are aware, that the communication is different and there is an ad-hoc network that gets created to exchange the device profile.
Together with our IT department responsible for our security infrastructure we narrowed it down to the following reason:
As we are blocking all IPv6 traffic for local networking, the iPhone cannot communicate with Xcode to make the first connection and load the device profile. As they are not planning on changing this behavior, I am reaching out to you, if there is a way to force this first handshake between Xcode and iOS device to use IPv4? Or is there any other way to enable debugging for these devices? Any ideas would be very helpful.
開発アプリで通知確認を行うため、UDIDをプロビジョニングプロファイルに追加する必要があります。
iPhoneのUDIDは取得することができたのですが、AppleWatchのUDIDを取得する方法が分かりません。
Xcodeと接続してUDIDを取得しようとしましたが、iPhoneのみ認識がされAppleWatchが認識されていません。
AppleWatchもデベロッパモードをONしなければならないとAppleから返答をもらったが、その方法がわからないのでどなたかご教授お願い致します。
I'm trying to setup a macOS 26 build environment in a VM (using UTM and the virtualization framework Apple provides).
I have Xcode 26 installed and have logged into my Apple ID and verified that the team and other configuration looks fine in Xcode settings.
When trying to build the macOS app, I see errors saying the VM's device ID has not been registered. I have confirmed that the device ID is registered both in the Provisioning portal AND the downloaded .provisionprofiles (in Library > Developer > Xcode > UserData).
This problem appears on multiple targets (e.g. the main app and extensions).
If I try to manually provision the app, using the Provisioning portal, I can build the product, but it will not launch because of Gatekeeper issues.
Finally, signing to run locally doesn't work either. As the app launches, frameworks refuse to load because Team IDs don't match. With ad hoc provisioning, there are no Team IDs.
I've come to the conclusion that this just isn't possible.
Which is a shame because I need to support products with a build environment on macOS 15 and cannot move over to macOS 26 yet. I suspect many developers outside of Apple are in a similar position.
I'm getting this error from inside the TestFlight tab in Appstore Connect. For a MacCatalyst app. This has worked for amost 4 years now I'm getting this error.
I did update my version of Xcode to 26.0.1. And I migrated all the project settings it asked me to migrate.
I ran the Validation in the Archive window of Xcode. No issues found there.
Whenever I hit play on my app to test it on the Mac the register .app part starts taking more than 15 minutes, this is severely impacting my work.
There's no indication on what's wrong and how can I fix this.