Destination toolbar disappeared on XCode 6.4

Today in the morning I tried to compile my project to run in my device and I found the destination toolbar disappeared and I cannot choose my IOS device or IOS Simulator device as target. (I can do it in the Product/Destination Menu)

After some research I found the >> at the right on the screen and when I pushed a Scheme option appeared but it is disabled and I can't enable again.

This is what I tried with no success:

• Open an old project to see if the problem was in my project

• Create a new project (with Swift and Objective C but I don't think this make any difference)

• Restart my computer

• Hide and show the toolbar (View menu/Hide Toolbar and the View menu/Show Toolbar)

• I tried all the previous options with the device connected and disconnected

I have installed the IOS Simulator 8.4 (when I run my project it runs in the last selected simulator) and XCode 6.4.

Solution 1:

Looks like Xcode hides that menu when the window is a certain size. I have to make my window quite large before it comes back.

Solution 2:

Not a fix as such but you can work around it using the menus: Product > Scheme and Product > Destination

Solution 3:

You're probably running into the same issue I am. Like @BrandonWilliams said in his answer, it appears again if the Xcode window is wide enough. The underlying cause, for me at least, seems to be that in this build of Xcode (6.4) running on El Capitan beta 2 (with Xcode 7 beta installed), I am seeing duplicate simulators for iOS 8.4. And since there are two of the same version, the Schemes dropdown shows some sort of long GUID next to each one, causing the Scheme dropdown to be quite large:

Solution 4:

I came to SO looking for an answer but realized that I had seen this issue before.

So the problem is basically that auto layout sucks (I mean it is not working properly in Xcode 6) and on El Capitan, the destination toolbar is for some reason hiding instead of collapsing properly. So when your Xcode window is narrow, the destination toolbar disappears.

But, if you expand the window far enough, it shows back up again.

In case you can't tell, in the first screenshot, the window is about 1241 pixels wide and in the second screenshot the window is 1541 pixels wide.

Solution 5:

Go to Product then Destination and choose at which simulator or device you want to test your build.