How to change deployment target in Xcode 12.3?

Question

I'm seeing the following warning messages in xcode whenever compiling my app.

The iOS Simulator deployment target 'IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' is set to 8.0, but the range of supported deployment target versions is 9.0 to 14.3.99.

Google says it's somehow related to cocoapods but i'm not using them (just swift packages) & i also don't see pod file in xcode's list of project files..

Deployment target is already set to 14 -

Any ideas on how to get rid of these messages?

Answer 1

Search for IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in the search bar: you'll see that the human readable version (non-raw) string is iOS deployment target. So this is not about setting the simulator's target, this is about setting the iOS one. But you think you've already set the correct value for iOS deployment target.

Perhaps you are looking at the wrong target? Or looking at the project instead of the target?: See the picture below, select the target under TARGETS not PROJECT. This is because the target configuration overrides the project one: