I am looking through the rules and terms and it just says Xcode submissions will be run on a simulator. Does this mean Mac Catalyst or can it be run on a iPad VM? Or more so should we specify in the comments on where to run it.
Thank you!
Does this mean Mac Catalyst … ?
No.
Does this mean … a iPad VM?
No. There’s no supported virtualisation mechanism for iPad.
If you build in Xcode, you should expect that your submission will be run on the simulator. We call that out in the Swift Student Challenge Submission submission form.
You can assume that the Xcode and simulator versions will be 26 or later, so it’s fine to use iOS 26 APIs.
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