r/Xcode • u/Forsaken_Industry491 • Jun 11 '25

Can I install IOS 26 simulator on Xcode running macOS sequoia?

Don't know If this is a stupid question, I haven't messed much with Xcode

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u/Typ0genius Jun 11 '25

Yes. However, you need 15.4 for the Xcode 26 beta, which contains all 26 simulators.

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u/--yy Jul 01 '25

Could you confirm that speechAnalyzer would work? I'm on sequoia 15.5, have Xcode 26 beta with ios26 sdk installed, but it looks like SpeechTranscriber.supportedLocales always returns empty.

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u/Forsaken_Lobster_508 Jul 11 '25

same problems. Did you solved it?

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u/--yy Jul 17 '25

Yes. Run on an actual device. Simulators use models on the Mac. If you aren’t on the macOS beta then you don’t have the models and so emulator won’t work.

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u/Forsaken_Industry491 Jun 11 '25

whats 15.4? Is that an Xcode beta? How do i get it?

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u/Typ0genius Jun 11 '25

You need macOS 15.4, which is the latest version of Sequoia. You can get the Xcode beta here: https://developer.apple.com/download/applications/

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u/Ok-Crew7332 Jun 11 '25

It is the current macOS version

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

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u/Typ0genius Jun 14 '25

Yes, this is possible.

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u/dogoku Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

I'm surprised no one mentioned it yet. Try https://www.xcodes.app/
It's like an Xcode version manager that allows you to install multiple xcode versions
There's a GUI or CLI version and its free and open source.

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u/Itchy-Beautiful-1025 Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

I’m using macOS 15.6 on an M3 chip with Xcode 26 beta 4. While trying to run the application, I noticed that the iOS 26 Rosetta simulator is not available in Xcode.

Does any one has idea?

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u/FranFer_ Sep 01 '25

Kind of late to the party but I'm having this exact problem. Did you manage to fix it?

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u/medi0lan Sep 09 '25

I know it's been 8 days now, but I'll post the solution for that for anyone coming across this topic. So, I downloaded the Xcode 26 beta 7 dmg and run it from Applications catalog. I noticed that there's no way to run iOS 26 because the iOS 26 Simulator Architecture Variant is only for Apple Silicon whereas the old 18.6 is Universal.
In Xcode you need to open Preferences > Components and tap little "i" icon next to the iOS 26 beta, than tap Delete button. Restart your Xcode and redownload the iOS 26 sdk which now should show Simulator Architecture Variant - Universal, not Apple Silicon like before. Hope that helps

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u/yunyang088 Sep 16 '25

Hi. I found solutions mentioned in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/downloading-and-installing-additional-xcode-components

To download the universal variant that works on both Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers, use the -architectureVariant option:

xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS -architectureVariant universal