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Alex Stone
Alex Stone

Reputation: 47348

How to enable developer mode on an iOS device without deploying an app to it using Xcode 6?

I'm holding off on installing Xcode 6.1 due to horrible reviews it gets. Without that version, I cannot build on iOS 8.1 devices. Yet I have a couple devices running iOS 8.1 that I need to enable developer mode on. For iOS 8.0 devices I can just build and run any app on them and these devices would get "developer" option in settings app.

In Xcode 5.1 there was an explicit option to enable developer mode on devices or add them to portal, but xCode 6.x does not seem to have that.

How can I enable developer mode on an iOS 8.1 device using Xcode 6 ?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13519

Answers (2)

Sandeep Rana
Sandeep Rana

Reputation: 3441

On iOS 16 I saw this was disabled for some reason. But you can enabled it by Going into

Settings > Privacy and Security > Developer Mode > Enable

Xcode 14 shows this warning. But on Xcode 13 it is hidden and shows: Failed to Prepare device for Development.

Upvotes: 0

dadThrowsBolts
dadThrowsBolts

Reputation: 356

You may not need to do this any more?

I just installed an ad-hoc app with a development provisioning profile on a device with iOS 8.1 and I didn't need to enable development mode on the device.

Upvotes: 1

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