Xcode Suddenly Failing to Build for ARM64 Simulator on Apple Silicon (M1)

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DJoshi1 OP

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Hi all,

I’m suddenly experiencing an old issue again and can no longer build my project to run on the local iOS simulator.

I’m using a MacBook with an M1 (ARM64) processor and Xcode for development. Until recently, everything was working as expected. However, when I opened Xcode today, I noticed new build options such as ARM64 and ARM64 + x86_64, and I’m also seeing simulator entries running under Rosetta. I don’t recall seeing these options the last time I used Xcode.

At the moment:

Building for “Any iOS Device (arm64)” succeeds.

Building for Rosetta-based simulators also succeeds (which I understand are intended for Intel-based processes).

However, when I select an ARM64 simulator, the build fails with the error: “Framework Podd_App not found.”

It appears that simulator builds targeting ARM64 are being restricted or misconfigured, possibly due to a corrupted setting or a recent update.

Has anyone experienced this before, or can suggest which settings I should check to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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Thanks for the post. Got a question.

Is your project using CocoaPods or other third-party frameworks? What's Podd_App?

If so I think the problem could be that older CocoaPods installations (or even some manual framework setups) often explicitly excluded arm64 for simulator builds because Intel Macs only needed x86_64 for simulators.

Can you check on the dependencies of that project? Do you have the same issue creating new project from Xcode?

Albert Pascual   Worldwide Developer Relations.

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