“The run destination iOS Device is not valid for running the scheme”

Question

I\'ve been running my app on an iPhone 5 /iOS 6, but when I try to run it on an iPhone 4S / iOS6 I get \"The run destination iOS Device is not valid for running the scheme N

Answer 1

This is similar to Kunal Gupta's comment, but I got this error after running an Xcode project on an actual iPad (the deployment target was changed to iPad and I wanted to run it on my iPhone simulator). Remember to change the deployment info after you use an actual device/simulator, especially when switching from iPad to iPhone.

Answer 2

In the case of iOS 13.x - What worked for me is unpairing my watch to my phone and repairing it to my iPhone. I wouldn't just unpair it via Bluetooth- I repeated the whole cycle as if I got a new watch. It took 10 mins to do the whole thing. When I ran my app again, it worked. From there, ensure all your Targets have the same sign in for identity.

Answer 3

I had this problem in XCode 9.0.1.

It seems that XCode does not refresh the list of connected devices.

You may notice that after disconnecting your device, you can still choose it as a target. So XCode may actually be trying to connect to a bogus device.

To fix this:

1. Edit the scheme.
2. Re-select the scheme's executable.
   • this seems to force XCode to update the list of connected devices.

If that did not work, try reconnecting your device (cable) before you do this.

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Or perhaps, some other combination of disconnecting device, connecting device, and re-selecting the scheme's executable.

As a desperate measure, you may also try to change the cable that connects your mobile device to your pc.

But ideally... Xcode should be fixed.

Answer 4

In my case, none of the answers given worked for me.

I was trying to setup TravisCI to my project and this is what i did:

Select Target > Edit Scheme > Build

Check the "run" option in the Tests target and the issue disappeared, i hope this help someone, i spent 2 days trying to fix this.