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Hosted Azure Pipeline for .NET MAUI iOS App fails with "Could not find a valid Xcode app bundle at '/Applications/Xcode_16.app'"

Starting yesterday, our hosted azure build pipelines for our .NET MAUI iOS App began to break with the following error message

/Users/runner/hostedtoolcache/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8314/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(1867,3): error : Could not find a valid Xcode app bundle at '/Applications/Xcode_16.app'. Please verify that 'xcode-select -p' points to your Xcode installation. For more information see https://aka.ms/macios-missing-xcode. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/src/Mobile/xyz.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]

Until this day, everything worked fine, and now occasionally (1 out of 10 tries) the build succeeds. Has anyone else experienced this or found a reliable fix/workaround? This is getting really frustrating.

We set the XCode version with this task:

  - task: Bash@3
    displayName: Set XCode Version
    inputs:
      targetType: "inline"
      script: |
        sudo xcode-select -switch "/Applications/Xcode_16.app/Contents/Developer"
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    Updating to macOS 15 resolved our problems, however, we had to update the certificate signing as well to work with macOS 15 and XCode 16.


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    Indeed it seems XCode 16 has been removed from macOS-14: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10703

    In my case, I have updated my vmImage to macOS-15 and it works fine but unfortunately some people may have to rework their pipelines if they rely on macOS-14.

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