Minimum Deployment vs Target Deployment

Question

What is the main difference between the term minimum deployment and target deployment in Xcode?

I notice that I have to set up these two target versions, but I am not sure whether these two are different or same stuff just different words?

Answer 1

The Target Deployment you are referring to is in the "Project" section. This specifies the default Minimum Deployment for targets created as part of this project.
The Minimum Deployment is set per target and specifies the minimum OS version this particular target will support.