Xcode 15 can't install iOS 17 platform simulator

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Created Sep ’23

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I installed Xcode 15 and on first openning it auto downloaded iOS 17 simulator but failed to install. The error info is :

Failed to copy file /Users/kelanjiang/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads/com.apple.dmg.iPhoneSimulatorSDK17_0-17.0.0.0.dmg to /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images/Inbox/43457D23-59DB-496A-B682-85D8F92F4FC7.dmg.copying
Domain: SimDiskImageErrorDomain
Code: 6
User Info: {
    DVTErrorCreationDateKey = "2023-09-25 10:26:12 +0000";
    unusableErrorDetail = "Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 \"No such file or directory\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to copy file /Users/kelanjiang/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads/com.apple.dmg.iPhoneSimulatorSDK17_0-17.0.0.0.dmg to /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images/Inbox/43457D23-59DB-496A-B682-85D8F92F4FC7.dmg.copying}";
}
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System Information

macOS Version 13.6 (Build 22G120)
Xcode 15.0 (22265) (Build 15A240d)
Timestamp: 2023-09-25T18:26:12+08:00

The sreenshot is like:

I tried to reinstall Xcode and clean some cache files but still have the same issue and same appearence in this setting page.

Any advises would be helpful

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Answer 1

Klein-Mioke OP

Sep ’23

Update the screenshot.

Screenshot 2023-09-25 at 18.29.36.png

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Answer 2

dharr OP

Sep ’23

Also running into this, I have a handful of other weird things too like when I go to uninstall listed runtimes I get:

❯ xcrun simctl runtime delete 21J353 An error was encountered processing the command (domain=com.apple.CoreSimulator.simdiskimaged.SimDiskImageError, code=18): Cannot stage disk image or bundle for delete: 4A9A3A5B-03C2-4A4F-AF9B-A237B7A500BE Underlying error (domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain, code=4): “4A9A3A5B-03C2-4A4F-AF9B-A237B7A500BE.dmg” couldn’t be moved to “NSIRD_simdiskimaged_rClQ89” because either the former doesn’t exist, or the folder containing the latter doesn’t exist. The file doesn’t exist.

Almost feels like my CoreSimulator directories got corrupted and now I can't recover.

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Answer 3

piotr-musialek-footballco OP

Oct ’23

I had exact the same problem after updating macOS to Sonoma. After searching through the whole internet I could find only this thread and some not very similar issues with Xcode 15 release candidates or beta. This got me thinking, maybe if I install Xcode 15 beta this would at least count as fresh? When I opened the page with all downloads including Xcode beta I realised that the list includes simulator runtimes as well. There's even the beta version of each as well. So wait a minute, maybe I can download it manually and install it a different way? And there it is, after I expand the description I found:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/installing-additional-simulator-runtimes

xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS just starts downloading it inside xcode, so the result is the same

I downloaded the runtime file of iOS 17 beta and tried:

xcrun simctl runtime add ~/Downloads/iOS_17.0.1_Simulator_Runtime.dmg

Now I get the copy error in my terminal. I got ****** and I run: (this requires Full Disk Access for terminal app)

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images/Inbox
sudo mkdir Inbox

and to my surprise ... IT WORKED! Well....it got installed. However I couldn't create any simulator with this iOS. But after removing all runtimes, downloading normal iOS 17 runtime file and installing it in terminal - voila! I can now run the iPhone 15 simulator 🙂

Good luck guys!

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Answer 4

zhenjie OP

Oct ’23

I have the same question, have you solved it?

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Answer 5

Rudra23 OP

Nov ’23

Check if you have enough space in your system

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