I am trying to build an app for Vision Pro and have spent a good amount of time preparing for it with what I have, an old MacBook 12 inch. Therefore, I needed to find a way to update it to Sonoma OS, and I used OpenCore Legacy Patcher to accomplish that.
Now, I’ve encountered another issue: in Xcode, it will not download the visionOS platform. This option is greyed out with the message “Requires Apple silicon Mac.” Is there any way to bypass this and download it for Xcode so I can start selecting the Vision Pro device in my simulator? Additionally, some Vision Pro devices are running on visionOS 2.0, but I only see an option (which is greyed out) for visionOS 1.0. Is there something wrong with this?
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You cannot release apps for visionOS on Intel Macs, see this discussion, which is unfortunate and kind of unfair for Intel Mac users.
You can, however, try out visionOS on an Intel Mac with Xcode 15.0 beta and macOS Ventura, which is the latest and only version that supports visionOS Simulator on an Intel Mac. Because this Xcode has a beta runtime, one cannot release an app with it.
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