Xcode 8.0 beta 6 does not support iPhone 4/4S

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AppleDevMN OP

Created Aug ’16

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When I attempt to run my app, which targets iOS 7.1, on my iPhone 4 I get the following message:

Could not locate device support files.

This iPhone 4 is running iOS 7.1.2 (11D257), which may not be supported by this version of Xcode

I understand that iOS 10 will not support either the iPhone 4 (latest supported version is 7.1.2) or the iPhone 4s (latest supported version is 9.3.4). However, XCode 8 appears to no longer support the iPhone 4/4S as there aren't any simulators for these devices.

Since Xcode 8 does not support the iPhone 4/4S, there is no way to test the code on these devices. Thus, I have to specify that iOS 10 is the minimum supported version to officially exclude this device type from my app.

Is this Apple's intent, to EOL the iPhone 4/4s devices? Is there a work around for this? This is NOT good as there are a substantial number of these devices still in use worldwide.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Answer 1

pietro909 OP

May ’17

It's ridiculous that Apple didn't answer this question.

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Answer 2

TheCD OP

May ’17

Xcode 8.x only supports iOS 8 or later. So yes, the iPhone 4 is no longer supported, but the iPhone 4S is still supported if it's running iOS 8-9.

Go to Xcode > Preferences > Components > Simulators. There you will find a list of iOS simulators to download (iOS 8.1 or later for me). Still, it's recommended that you also have an actual device (e.g., iPhone 4S) to test your app.

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Answer 3

Rckoenes OP

May ’17

the iPhone 4 is end of life. Since swift 3 does not support iOS 7.

If you are using Xcode 8.2.* you can still manualy set the deplyment target to 7.1 (I did not try a lower version).

You can't run the app derctly on the device, thus the only way to test it is to create a AdHoc and install it on the the device running iOS 7.

After Xcode 8.3 and swift 3 you minimal deployment target is iOS 8.

We have many app live with different kind of user, the iOS 7 user account for about 0.8% of user and we are therefor dropping support for iOS 7 with new versions of our apps.

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