How to: Build with newer iOS versions on old Xcode versions.

serg_stav
1 min readSep 28, 2018

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Hello, welcome to tips&tricks stories. This week tip will be about solving a problem when you have old Xcode version, but you need to build your app on the new iOS versions. I know a little trick on how to do that.

First of all, you have to download a new version of Xcode, dmg file. Here is a link for loading .dmg file.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10335943/3682614

Once you downloaded new Xcode, please do next steps. Click right button on just downloaded Xcode and click Show package contents->Contents->Developer->Platform->iPhoneOS.platform-DeviceSupport, here you can see a platform on which you can test your apps. So just copy a folder with an iOS version you need and paste on the same path in your old Xcode version. When you will connect your device with a newer iOS version, you will have to wait for several minutes and then you can test your apps from your old Xcode on iOS.

So, as you can see all that we need to do is just copy required platform folder. Enjoy!

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