Ineligible Devices section appeared in Xcode 6 x x

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After installing Xcode 6 my devices moved to greyed-out section Ineligible Devices and I can t select them as deploy target     Update   This error occurs in all versions of Xcode 6 x x  There are so many different reasons causing this problem  Check this solution list  for more details

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Changing your deployment target is not a good idea to solve this problem  it will change which iOS versions you support on the app store    What I did is restart just Xcode and it was fixed

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Simply  deploying to another device and then switching back to the former  ineligible  device worked here   saved the hassle of restarting anything

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I set my  iOS Deployment Target  in  Project  and  Targets  from 7 1 to 8 0 and restarted Xcode  with  Quit   and it worked

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What worked for me is to install XCode 6 1  compatible with iOS 8 1

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My iPhone has updated to iOS8 1  My Xcode version is 6 0 1  and my mac os version is 10 10  When I want to run app in my iPhone  there is a section named Ineligible Devices OS Version   Then I update Xcode to 6 1 version  solved problem    Part of Xcode 6 1 release note  Includes SDKS for OS X 10 10 Yosemite  OS X 10 9 Mavericks  and iOS 8 1   That is  Xcode 6 0 x don t support iOS 8 1

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Upgrade XCode to ensure that it supports your current iOS version on device     In my case  my phone was on iOS 9 1 x   but XCode version was 7  which supported iOS 9 0 devices

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If you have a chance to run any project on the  ineligible  device from other Mac with Xcode  try it and then reconnect the device to your Mac  without restarting Xcode Mac   For me  after doing that  the  ineligible device  section disappears and my device returns to the normal status  Hope it helps for someone

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The most common cause for this issue is Xcode 6 3 and running iOS 8 2 on your device  Xcode 6 3 doesn t install the 8 2 simulator by default  It has the 8 3 simulator installed   The solution by  joshstaiger works  but it is not a permanent fix  You have to do this each time you want to run the app on your device  The permanent fix is to simply install the 8 2 simulator in Xcode 6 3  Go the Xcode -  Preferences -  Downloads  Install the 8 2 simulator under Components    Now you will no longer see your device listed under ineligible devices

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Ran into the same issue  using Unity3D     Xcode 6 3 requires Unity 4 6 4  If you re using an older Unity version  e g  4 6 3  you ll always get your devices in the Ineligible Devices section

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I changed my deployment target to 7 1 the same as my iphone  and now I can run swift programs on it  It was on 8 0 and showed up as ineligible

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In my case I had to reattach device and when it asks press  Trust this computer   then my device appears available again in xCode

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I simply restarted my Mac and my iPhone 6 and the problem was solved  I never had to change my deployment target

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My iPad was 8 0  but i had deployment target set to 8 1  I changed the deployment target in build settings  and immediately  the ipad moved out of the  ineligible  category   I am on Yosemite and XCode 6 1

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I agree with txulu  changing the deployment target is a ridiculous idea  I need to support devices back at least one version  that is non-negotiable to me   Restarting my iPhone 5 after updating to iOS 8 1 and Xcode to 6 1 worked for me

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Besides setting iOS Deployment Target to iOS 8 0  also restart your iOS8 iPhone iPad  This did the trick for me

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There is a lot of options  10 23 29 answers for this question    that can cause this error  And no one is 100  solve this issue  Here is summarise of all solutions   First of all   0  Update to latest Xcode version Most of the reasons  that cause this problem fixed in Xcode version 6 3 1  6D1002 published April 21  2015   List of solutions in order frequency of occurrence    The most likely solution     In Xcode status go to  Menu bar-  Product -  Destination and find your device  It will be listed under Ineligible section Select your device  After you will be able to build and deploy to device   thanks   joshstaiger         If it doesn t work    iOS Deployment Target should be  lt   of the version of your device   You find this option in Build Settings tab when you click on a target of your project in Xcode  If version is correct - try to restart Mac and iPhone iPad simultaneously  It resolve this issue in most cases   thanks   HoaParis  Finally if either doesn t work - try to do this magic actions    switch iOS Deployment Target to 8 1 restart Xcode switch back to desired version       Other problems  that cause this issue    Xcode Beta 6 3 does not support iOS 8 2  and also 8 1   You won t see your iDevice in deploy target list   Use Xcode 6 2 instead of Xcode 6 3 beta in order to debug with an iDevice iOS 8 2 Xcode 6 3 requires Unity 4 6 4 If you re using an older Unity version  e g  4 6 3  you ll always get your devices in the Ineligible Devices section  thanks   d4rk  Also it appears in case of changing name of Xcode project  The fix it -  create a new scheme by selecting Manage Schemes  gt      button   thanks   dale-moore  Beta to Release upgrade of Xcode can require upgrading iOS or watchOS from beta to release version  For example  when switching from Xcode 8 beta 6 to Xcode 8 release  watchOS 3 beta is listed as unsupported

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I had a similar issue and for me I had upgraded to iOS8 and also changed the name of my Xcode project   The fix for me was to create a new scheme by selecting Manage Schemes       button   After doing this  my list of devices returned

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Fixed in Xcode version 6 3 1  6D1002  published April 21  2015   At least the problem magically went away for me after installing this Xcode version

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With the release of Xcode 6 3 1  check first the Update 5    Verify that  iOS Deployment Target  is  lt   the version of your iDevice       You find this option in  Build Settings  tab when you click on a target of your project in Xcode      Then if does not work  try to restart Xcode  Sometimes we have to restart the Mac and iPhone iPad  Take a look at the Updates below before restarting Xcode   Update  in Yosemite  Xcode 6 0 1 does not support iOS 8 1  you have to update to Xcode 6 1 if you want to debug on iOS 8 1 device  or you will probably have the same problem as described in the topic Update 2  Xcode Beta 6 3 does not support iOS 8 2  and also 8 1 - thanks  steveb   You won t see your device in deploy target list  I don t know if other versions are supported  Update 3  Use Xcode 6 2 instead of Xcode 6 3 beta in order to debug with a device running iOS 8 2 Updated 4   for Xcode 6 3  and eventually 6 3 beta if someone use it       if you have this problem  just go to Product   Destination to select your device  Even though it says your device is ineligible  it will still allow you to select it  If your device version is    target version  the build should work  It must be a bug for Xcode 6 3 in debug with iOS 8 3  or maybe other iOS version   thanks  einfach        Update 5  Apple released Xcode 6 3 1 that fix the issue of ineligible device  If you have this problem with Xcode 6 3  upgrade to XCode 6 3 1   From Release Notes  Xcode 6 3 1       Fixed  Devices previously listed as  ineligible for running      erroneously are listed correctly   20121178

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For most people the cause of the problem is probably mismatch between Xcode  device version and app target version  If versions are not a problem for you  most likely is that the device  iPhone iPad  has been used with another Mac to copy apps to  This happens particularly more with a team environment where an iDevice can be used between team members  Xcode knows some other developer s Mac has connected to this device  it will show up as  Ineligible   But the previous Mac that connected to it  it will show up as normal  The quickest work around is as shown by joshstaiger among others  Go to Xcode - Product- Destination Select the ineligible device as target  It should work

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Everyone should note that there seems to be a bug in XCode 6 3  Beta and GM  that is aggravating this problem   I have iOS 8 3 installed on my device   Setting the build target to iOS  lt   8 3 did not help   Nor did any of the other solutions posted   What worked for me   Go to the Product Menu   Destination and select your device   It will be listed under  Ineligible   but you will still be able to select it   After doing this  I was able to build and deploy to my device

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For iOS 9 1  devices  the Xcode version should be upgraded to 7 1  even 7 0x will not work

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After trying the 2 answers above  changing deployment target and restarting my iOS device   what finally fixed it for me was restarting my Mac

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You can try below solutions to run build in your device    Restart your iOS device  If device is recently updated  and your Xcode  Make Sure that in build settings  iOS Deployment Target  is  lt   the version of your iDevice     Otherwise you can goto - Product   Destination  select your device which would be showing as ineligible device You will be able to select your device and run your build   I also came across that if you have the iOS 8 4 then your Xcode doesn t have the SDK for iOS 8 4 due to which devices show as ineligible  To solve this issue  Download Xcode 6 4

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I found the following useful    Connect to the new device  go to itunes  make sure you sync the device  you might have a certificate issue   Follow NateJC s advice  i e  switch devices and switch back again

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My answer  perhaps listed already but i did not notice  was simple  I deleted the app in question from the target itself  then fired up Xcode and the target was then available  And yes  i tried most of the other suggestions  and was resorting to activating the target from the Product menu  but that was getting tedious

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make sure the deployment target version in setting is lower or equal than the iphone version   if the deployment target is 7 1  but the iphone is 7 0 3  you will see that error message

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Please check you device iOS version and your Xcode application build target version  This might be causing the issue

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I can confirm that the answer it to upgrade Xcode to 6 1  If you are using Xcode 6 0 x you will not be able to select a device running 8 1  Your deployment targets and OS version should have nothing to do with this   If your OS version is greater than 10 9 4 I would recommend this  First  un-attaching all devices  Download Xcode 6 1  After opening the new version of Xcode attach your device  You should be good to go   Another good thing would be to look at the release notes  It s and easy read and gives you a general idea of what still needs to be fixed

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My solution was that I had recently upgraded my iOS device to 8 3 and Xcode still didn t recognize it  The fix was to simply upgrade Xcode to 6 3

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I m using the 6 3 Xcode Beta  I had the same issue as above  I restarted my computer and phone but did not work  Simply went to the build target under build settings and changed build target to 8 1  I hope this is fixed in the next released  Make sure that after you change your build setting - you need to restart your device and Xcode

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Tried all possible Updates  with Xcode 6 3  iOS 8 3 and OSX 10 10 3  but didn t got a permanent solution   Kudos to skywinder the first option worked

[ios] Ineligible Devices section appeared in Xcode 6.x.x

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