Archive button grayed out in Xcode

Question

Would you be able to help me understand the reason why Archive button is grayed out in Xcode?

I have all developers profiles downloaded

Device type set to iPhone 6

And archive is checked in scheme.

Radarman

Put Generic iOS Device instead of selecting a Simulator. – Galbanum

Thank you ! For some reason I thought device is needed. It works now – Radarman

Answer 1

Answer valid through Xcode 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12+

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You can not archive, because from target you have not selected device or Generic iOS device or Any iOS Device , still there is a simulator.

Nothing generic or wrong with Xcode 7. This happens with all Xcode versions.

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• Problem - Why archived button is grayed out?

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• Solution - Why archived button is not grayed out?

In Xcode 12 it is named Any iOS Device

Contradistinguish

Good luck. @atx – Contradistinguish

I wish Xcode would leave the Archive option enabled, but give a useful message like "you must select generic...blah blah". Or anything that would tell you why it won't actually do the archive. I'm not a fan of disabled options, especially when the end result is a lot of searching for the same issue by many people (such as is the case here). I had encountered this issue before and had to search again because I forgot why it was an issue before, lol – Yacov

@VariousArtist True, hope such additions comes in next XCode versions. – Contradistinguish

Still valid in XCode 9.2. 👏 – Holloway

Yeah, I guess Mac app development can’t change menu options run time, but it can enable / disable option. – Contradistinguish

Worked like charm – Velarize

Seems like generic. – Contradistinguish

I feel so dumb by looking at this. Anyone else? thanks a lot by the way. – Lifeless

@Lifeless me too – Slapup

The option is now called Any iOS Device (arm64) – Pick

Still valid in XCode 12.4 – Contradistinguish

I don't think Apple is hostile towards developers, I just think they're suffering the consequences of making iOS and macOS a gated ecosystem. XCode is a mess, no doubt about that. – Vilma

@Contradistinguish Thank you for adding the screenshots. That's what has not been obvious for me in related questions on this matter. – Duckworth

Thank you for the answer. Completely obvious, but I was still stumped until I read your answer, when it BECAME obvious! Saved me pulling my hair out, again. Xcode - fun every day! :-) – Platitudinize