Installing Xcode 26.2 on macOS Intel actually installed the Silicon version #456

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1. mattrubin commented on Jan 3, 2026

   

   mattrubin

   on Jan 3, 2026

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   A bit more detail on the workaround suggested above:

   • You can download the latest universal Xcode xip (currently, 26.2) from https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=Xcode
   • To install from the downloaded xip, the full command was

     xcodes install 26.2 --path ~/Downloads/Xcode_26.2_Universal.xip
     

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2. ajayrana08 commented on Jan 15, 2026

   

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   then how your bridge work for emulator like if you are using android studio with flutter project then emulator is not showing for running because if we dowload from website then it can't move to application package
3. acecilia

   added a commit that references this issue on Jan 16, 2026

   Fix architecture selection for Xcode downloads (issue XcodesOrg#456)

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4. jacobcxdev commented on Feb 13, 2026

   

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   Just wanted to note that this is still an issue and the manual download is much trickier in headless environments, so it would be good to get this sorted.
5. JonathanBocanegra commented on Feb 25, 2026

   

   JonathanBocanegra

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   Was able to get the app registered with this!

   Visit and download 26.2 universal xip here XCode

   Once downloaded, open terminal

   cd ~/Downloads
   xip -x Xcode_26.2_Universal.xip
   sudo mv ~/Downloads/Xcode.app /Applications
   sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

   you can assert it works with

   xcodebuild -version
   # Xcode 26.2
   # Build version 17C52

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6. kambala-decapitator commented on Mar 17, 2026

   

   kambala-decapitator

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   just had the same with 26.3
7. mvillafuertem commented on May 17, 2026

   

   mvillafuertem

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   Hi there @MattKiazyk, Is this project still actively maintained? The last release was in June 2025

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8. pronebird commented on Oct 2, 2026

   

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   It's problematic on CI runner. It would be great to have a setting to download universal image.
9. smm-h commented on Oct 17, 2026

   

   smm-h

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   Still happens with xcodes 2.1.0, and the cause looks like install not applying the architecture filter that 2.1.0 added to list.

   Setup: xcodes 2.1.0 (the universal xcodes.zip from the release), default data source (xcodeReleases), macOS Tahoe 26.7 (25G229) on x86_64 (Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2), installing Xcode 26.6 (17F113).

   What happens:

   1. xcodes list prints 26.6 (17F113) [Universal] and says it is showing "Universal (x86_64)" Xcodes for this Mac.
   2. xcodes install 26.6 downloads Xcode_26.6_Apple_silicon.xip.
   3. file /Applications/Xcode-26.6.0.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode reports Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64, and xcodebuild fails with Bad CPU type in executable.

   Why: the cached list (~/Library/Application Support/com.robotsandpencils.xcodes/available-xcodes.json) has two entries for 26.6.0+17F113: first the one whose URL ends in Xcode_26.6_Apple_silicon.xip (arm64), then the one ending in Xcode_26.6_Universal.xip (arm64 and x86_64). printAvailableXcodes filters by ArchitectureFilter.defaultForMachine, but XcodeInstaller picks xcodeList.availableXcodes.first(withVersion: version) (Sources/XcodesKit/XcodeInstaller.swift, line 327 on main), which is the Apple silicon entry because it comes first.

   Workaround without downloading by hand: removing only the Apple silicon entry from that cached JSON and running xcodes install 26.6 without --update downloaded and installed the Universal build; its Xcode binary is x86_64 plus arm64 and xcodebuild runs.

   Expected: install picks the variant the host can run, as list does (Universal on Intel), or takes the same --architecture option list takes.

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