Using the device simulator for iOS 8 with Xcode 7

Question

I thinking about port my App to Swift 2 and Xcode 7. But the device simulator only targets iOS 9 and I see no way to download iOS 8.

I have parallel Xcode 6.3 installed. Is there any way to test and debug my app under iOS 8 with the device simulator?

Answer 1

You can download older versions of iOS via Xcode.

Open

Xcode -> Preferences -> Components -> Select

all the iOS versions you want ( iOS 8.4 )

Once downloaded, you can get to it in the

Simulator -> Hardware -> Device

I am using Version 7.3.1 (7D1014)