Xcode 6.2: no iOS simulators available?

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I am running a Mac 10.10.3. I am working on a iOS project.

I got an error when using Xcode 6.3 that didn't appear in Xcode 6.2. The video I was listening to was also using Xcode 6.2.

When I got it, there were no simulators. I went to Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads. There were two downloads: an iOS 8.1 and 7.1 simulator. But I can't run my program. There are no actual virtual devices or anything.

In Xcode 6.3, there were a bunch of devices. iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5s, etc. Nothing's there except iOS device in Xcode 6.2. How do I make them appear?

To be clear: I want the devices to run my program.

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What's wrong with using the latest version of Xcode? – soulshined
According to WikiPedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#2.x_series it's XCode 3.1that brought iOS (Simulator) to developers. Plus, XCode 3's release was previous to iOS, so XCode 2 shouldn't have iOS Simulator. – Larme
Why are you using 10.3 and XCode 3?? There are additional downloads here but you really shouldn't be using software from over 12 years ago... It's unsafe and doesn't get any updates anymore – Kametrixom
Xcode 2 is absurdly old, and no longer supported. There was a huge rewrite of Xcode with Xcode 4.0, and then another large-scale rewrite with Xcode 6. Using anything other than the latest tools is silly. As @Larme points out, the iOS simulator was added in Xcode 3.1, so it won't be available in any version of Xcode prior to that, and if I remember correctly, Apple offered different builds of Xcode with and without the iOS SDK at that point. – Duncan C
I guess you have installed all the available versions of XCode on your system. Anyways, each XCode require simulators to be downloaded, it can't use simulators of other XCode that you might have installed. Suggestion. Keep only the latest version of XCode to eliminate confusion. – iphonic

2 Answers

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If in Xcode 6.3 (SIX.THREE, please update the title of your question) you have no Simulator available you just need to:

  1. Open Xcode > Preferences > Downloads
  2. Click the Download button next to an iOS Simulator
  3. Wait for the download to complete
  4. Now you can select the Simulator as you did in the previous version

Xcode > Preferences > Downloads

Hope this helps.

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That's correct. Xcode did not add support for iOS development until Xcode 3.1.

Unless you are supporting VERY old iOS hardware and OS versions, there is no good reason to deal with such old versions of Xcode, and many good reasons not to. Xcode 3.1, the first version of Xcode to support iOS development, is from 2008.