macOS-14 images missing iOS 18 Simulator

[chadseippel]

Description

While running Xcode builds against the macOS-14 pipelines, xcodebuild fails because it cannot find a scheme for iphoneos18.0. It looks like even though Xcode16.0 is installed, it's missing the iOS 18 Simulator.

If I run this command before running xcodebuild, it succeeds - "sudo xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS". But it adds around ~10 minutes to the build time. Can the macOS14 images have the iOS 18 simulator pre-installed?

Platforms affected

• [X] Azure DevOps
• [ ] GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• [ ] GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• [ ] Ubuntu 20.04
• [ ] Ubuntu 22.04
• [ ] Ubuntu 24.04
• [ ] macOS 11
• [ ] macOS 12
• [ ] macOS 13
• [ ] macOS 13 Arm64
• [X] macOS 14
• [X] macOS 14 Arm64
• [ ] Windows Server 2019
• [ ] Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

Image: macos-14 Version: 20240616.1

Is it regression?

No

Expected behavior

iOS 18 Simulator does not need to be manually installed

Actual behavior

iOS 18 Simulator is missing and xcodebuild fails in Xcode16.0

Repro steps

Use macOS14 image with Xcode16 installed, run xcodebuild against iphoneos scheme

[erik-bershel]

Hey @chadseippel!

That's true. We didn't installed Xcode 16.0 Beta 1 runtimes for macOS-14 images, only for macOS-14-arm64. We are working on it right now. Will provide the additional information later. Sorry for inconsistency. 😞