In Simulator on status bar red banner with rdar:45025538

Out of nowhere I got some red banner on top of my iPhone 13 mini / iOS 17.5. I cannot pin point the root cause of this. What I can say is that it only happens to Simulators of a certain type, e.g. iPhone 12 and 13 mini, but not iPhone 14 for example.

I have installed Xcode 26.1.0 and 26.1.1, out of which 26.1.0 is selected:

$ xcode-select -p
/Applications/Xcode-26.1.0.app/Contents/Developer

And following runtimes:

$ xcrun simctl runtime list
== Disk Images ==
-- iOS --
iOS 17.5 (21F79) - CF933623-A258-44F8-B248-C0F25C0C343B (Ready)
iOS 26.1 (23B80) - D11C3CDC-EE3D-44CC-8B92-9B7D00B54B0B (Ready)

Total Disk Images: 2 (14.6G)

Installing the newer 26.1 23B86 runtime doesn't help either.

January 2026 and this is still happening on 13 mini simulator. Latest xcode version (not beta).

Yesterday, January 14, I installed Xcode 26.2 from XcodeReleases. The issue is still present on iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini devices.

In Simulator on status bar red banner with rdar:45025538
 
 
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