xcrun simctl: cannot create iPhone 11 for iOS 12.4

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Created Sep ’21

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Hi there, I'm missing an iPhone 11 simulator with iOS 12.4 on my local machine so I tried to run command xcrun simctl create "iPhone 11 12.4" "iPhone 11" "iOS12.4" to create one but it would give me this error

Unable to create a device for device type: iPhone 11 (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-11), runtime: iOS 12.4 (12.4 - 16G73) - com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-12-4
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError, code=403):
Incompatible device

Please let me know what could have gone wrong here. I tried rebooting the computer but it didn't help.

For better context, here is full output after running xcrun simctl list devices: https://jpst.it/2BZcu

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Scott J OP

Sep ’21

Incompatible device is right: the iPhone 11 came with iOS 13 so it can't run any previous version.

Tip: try to create the simulator via Xcode's Devices and Simulators window. It won't let you try to configure an invalid combination of hardware and software.

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