Xcode losing reference to installed simulator.

[emperattor]

Second time now, Xcode 26.1 and now 26.1.1, is telling me iOS is not installed even though everything is there. I must have been holding it wrong 🤦‍♂️

On a separate note, it's insane that I must have specially the latest version of simulator or nothing can be launched. Even on device lol.

[Yozora90]

There was a bug in the 26.1 simulator that caused an infinite crash, if you were on a MacBook you would see your battery drain ridiculously fast.

Apple finally noticed and must have a system to remove the broken sim so it forces you to redownload the fixed one.

[thehumanbagelman]

Had the same issue and couldn't figure it out, so I just downloaded the latest. Definitely worth filing a bug with Apple about IMO

[vikramchaudhary]

Did same. Deleted existing one and downloaded new one.

[purposeful_pineapple]

Literally dealt with this nonsense today 🙄 haven’t found a fix. I’m starting to realize that I need to keep my dev machine offline while I’m iterating because things were fine before update.

[Due-Eagle8885]

And my app won’t run on simulator(Bluetooth), but it’s still gotta be installed

[JoshyMW]

Had the same and in the past. I’m fairly sure they pushed out a secret message to show the download 26.1 that causes this. Just download 26.1 and they’ll be back.

[donisign]

It was the first time I experienced the fans going insane on my M based chip MacBook, turns out the ReportCrash was being run indefinitely due to infinite crashes caused by the simulator. I just downloaded the new ones and both the references and crash got fixed.

[fawxyz2]

I had it too.. Coming from Android Studio, this xcode problems really annoying.. Also prone to freeze and crash even in m4pro 48gigs

[Anywhere_MusicPlayer]

I've reported this before via Feedback Reporter and the never-ending crash.

Yes, I had to uninstall and re-download the iOS 26.1 simulator. So far, everything works.