Error running playground. Unable to find suitable target device. (iOS Swift)

Fox Xcode 7, I had to install iPad Air or iPad Air 2 for the playground to work.


Another possible way to encounter that issue is to get Xcode being auto-updated, while the simulator was launched.

The solution is like mentioned above but more polite:

  1. Quit Xcode and Simulator app
  2. Run in Terminal: killall -9 com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService
  3. Launch Xcode and find that all fixed now.

Sure, you can just reboot instead.


From the developer forums, this worked for me:

  1. Quit Xcode
  2. Delete the folder /Users/<username>/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices. For example, in Terminal: rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices
  3. In Terminal: killall -9 com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService (or just reboot).