My App Application Bundle Unexpectedly Appears in my Xcode Project Navigator

Running Xcode 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1.

Recently, within the last month, an application bundle item is showing up in my Xcode project navigator under my application hierarchy. It looks just like my application target. When I look at the file inspector for this, it indicates it is an Application Bundle type, but the full path is in my Users/<Name>/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData.....Finder location.

When I delete this project navigator object, close Xcode, then re-open Xcode, the application bundle reappears in my project navigator.

  1. Why am I recently seeing this in my project navigator?
  2. Should I retain it?
  3. When I click on it and inspect in the file inspector, the target membership to my app is not checked. Should I check it? Why would I want/need this DerivedData application bundle in my project navigator?
My App Application Bundle Unexpectedly Appears in my Xcode Project Navigator
 
 
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