Simulators absent in xcode 6.2

Question

I have made a project in Xcode and copied the project to another system. When I opened the project on the other system, there was no option to select a Simulator device (only real Device). How can i resolve this issue?

Xcode probably hasn't been installed properly on the other system. Try a re-install. — Abhi Beckert, Oct 18 '14 at 05:28
but its working fine for those project who have made from starting on this system — Ravi Ojha, Oct 18 '14 at 05:30
possible duplicate of [Xcode only lets me run for an iOS device (no simulator)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10284299/xcode-only-lets-me-run-for-an-ios-device-no-simulator) — iYoung, Oct 18 '14 at 06:08
As you have tagged this with Xcode 5, I suggest you upgrade to Xcode 6 as the simulator architecture has changed quite considerably. — Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia, Oct 18 '14 at 13:55

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 18 '14 at 06:33

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Changing deployment target from 4.3 to 6 solved this issue, but if you still have problem go to project -> Build setting and see this if you have selected iOS because on OS X it will not show simulators enter image description here

edited Oct 18 '14 at 06:33

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This is correct. We do not support deployment targets older than 6.0 in the iOS Simulator. I believe this is mentioned in the Xcode release notes as well. – Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia Oct 18 '14 at 13:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 18 '14 at 06:09

Here is your solution (if you haven't found already :)

Under Your project Build Settings

select Deployment section.
change iOS Deployment Target to a version iOS 5.0 or less.
now you can go ahead and change the deployment target from device to simulator!

In my case the deployment target was set to version 5.1 and I still am running snow leopard OS with appropriate JARS copied from xCode 4.3 to make it run with a device running iOS 5.1. However, my simulators do not yet support version 5.1 so till I changed the deployment target to lower version e.g. 5.0 or 4.2 it won't let me run on simulator.

Simulators absent in xcode 6.2

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