How to add missing iPhone SE simulator in Xcode 11 with iOS 13 SDKs

You might have noticed that after upgrading to Xcode 11 with iOS 13 SDKs, Xcode’s list of iOS Simulators to run your app on does not include the iPhone SE simulator any more. The iPhone SE simulator comes very handy because we still need to support this device hence the need to test on it. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to get the simulator back to the list of available simulators in Xcode 11. In fact, you’re going to learn how to add many other missing simulators to your list.

Click on the active scheme to reveal the context menu:

Starting point to add new simulator
Starting point to add new simulator

Note that the list does not contain the iPhone SE simulator. Click on the “Add Additional Simulators…” button:

List of available simulators in Xcode
List of available simulators in Xcode

In the new window that opens, select the “Simulators” tab and then click on the plus button in the lower left corner of the window:

Simulators tab
Simulators tab

This opens new sheet which enables you to create new simulator. Click on the “Device Type” menu to reveal a menu full of possible simulators:

Create a new simulator
Create a new simulator

Select the iPhone SE simulator (or any other that you’d like to add) and then click on “Create”:

List of simulator to add
List of simulator to add

You just added the iPhone SE simulator to the list of available simulators in the scheme menu:

iPhone SE in list of simulators
iPhone SE in list of simulators

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