VS 2019 - Xamarin.iOS SDK version that is installed on Mac is (newer) not compatible with this version of VS (but VS 2022 is compatible)

Question

There are older questions on this topic, but I'd like to get advice on the current situation.

Details:

1. VS 2019 gives the message in the title. Even though it was recently updated, it still uses Xamarin.iOS 15.2.0.17, vs Mac's recent update to 15.4.0.0, to support the recent XCode update.

2. VS 2022 PREVIEW works - though its version says 15.3.0.41.

Question:

Is there a way to get VS 2019 to use the updated Xamarin.iOS? I assume the issue is that this is only on PREVIEW channel, but now that 2019 isn't the latest VS, I don't know how to give 2019 a preview version of Xamarin.iOS.

(I'd rather not do the alternative, which is to downgrade the version on the Mac.)

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ALTERNATIVE: I could also install VS 2022 stable, if it is easier to get that to work with current XCODE + Xamarin.iOS. (I prefer to do certain tasks in a stable VS, not the PREVIEW one.)

(The reason I'm not using VS 2022 stable for my production VS, is that I uninstalled it while trying to solve a problem involving WinUI3 (Windows Desktop app) launch profiles in 2022 Preview - I was making 100% sure that there was only one version of 2022 involved. Probably didn't have anything to do with that issue, so I'm fine with re-installing it, if there is a good reason to do so.)

Answer 1

Is there a way to get VS 2019 to use the updated Xamarin.iOS?

ADAIK , there is no other way except updating visual studio for windows.

The latest Visual studio provides the latest package (Xamarim.iOS), if visual studio 2019 can't do that it means that it's time to use visual studio 2022 .

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BTW , we can install latest Xamarin.iOS package without updating IDE in visual studio for mac , but it only works on mac.

Go to Xamarin.iOS github repo and download the pkg file ,install on mac .