IOS Simulator cannot find sdk and the simulated application quit errors

Question

I have been having this Xcode problem for a couple of months where my iOS simulator stops working whenever i run any application on Xcode and says, "The simulated application quit." and "iOS Simulator could not find the SDK. The SDK may need to be reinstalled." I am running Xcode 4.3.3 and have iOS sdk 5.1 and everything updated but it happened on my previous version of Xcode also. I have tried reinstalling Xcode over 10 times now and have been posting this question for a while now. No one has been able to get a solution. I have even sent in a bug report to apple but i don't think they will respond. I have tried doing everything every other person that has this problem has been told to do in other threads. I'm honestly thinking about just buying a new mac and seeing if Xcode will work on that one or taking in my current one to get looked at by apple. So if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Solution 1

Go to Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads and make sure the "Target SDK" you have selected in your project is in fact installed under the Downloads windows. For me this magically was uninstalled. Once i installed the SDK that my app was using, all worked again

Solution 2

This worked for me: http://www.colinbowern.com/posts/the-simulated-application-quit I just deleted the folder "6.1" under ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator The I just launched again the app and the simulator recreated correctly the 6.1 folder.

Solution 3

Resetting the simulator settings (iOS Simulator > Reset Contents and Settings) resolved this issue for me.

Comments

[Samik R]

Mine was using ios 6.0, and in the screen mentioned above, I did not see an entry for ios 6. Ended up reinstalling :-(

[Mark Amery]

Where is the 'Target SDK' option you refer to here located? I can't find it anywhere in my project settings in Xcode 4.6.2.

[Jayprakash Dubey]

But I wonder how could all simulator got uninstalled? Yesterday things were working correctly on Simulator.