How to Run Xcode 15.4 on Ventura MacOS: Break OS Limitation

Lee young-jun
2 min readNov 1, 2024

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I am maintaining a iOS App and used Xcode 13 and MacOS Monterey for it. So I upgraded to Xcode 14 and Ventura.

However I wanted more high versions. Before upgrading MacOS, I decided to upgrade Xcode first.

Ventura can’t download Xcode 15 from Appstore, so I downloaded it from the website.

Actually I couldn’t run Xcode 14 on Monterey, but I solved it.
Therefore I treated this issue using same way.

The solution is to modify info.plist in the Xcode.app.

  1. Open Package of the Xcode.app.

2. Open Info.plist under Contents directory.

3. Switch Minimum system version to 12.5

4. Run Xcode under MacOS directory in the package.

However It was still impossible to run Xcode.app directly.

The .app was in the Download folder.

I thought one idea, the location may affect to tthe execution permission

So I just moved it into Applications.

And I did it!

I can now run Xcode 15 on my Ventura app bar.
I don’t know why this behavior can solve the problem :)

I hope this solution can help you.

Happy Swifting!

References

https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=xcode%2015

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