Simulators fail to download in Xcode

Recently simulators have not been able to be downloaded from Xcode, after endlessly trying the transfer rate was well below 100kb/s and would fail after a short while. The speed was on average 100x slower than other servers with the exception of a short spike of passable speeds.

Because Xcode for some reason doesn't support resuming simulator downloads, I downloaded the simulators directly from the dvtdownloadableindex file using two different methods but the fileSize values consistently differed slightly from the downloaded files.

This resulted in a Missing Signature error when adding the simulator with xcrun simctl runtime add.

The speed issues seem to have been resolved.

The xcrun simctl runtime add command only works with 2022 and later Apple platforms:

xcrun simctl runtime add iOS_16_Simulator_Runtime.dmg

Simulator runtimes for earlier versions can be installed with xcodes.

Simulators fail to download in Xcode
 
 
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