Xcode – Azure Devops Pipeline MacOS VM Image Doesn't Appear to Have Any iOS Simulators

I am trying to create a CI pipeline to run my unit tests. From the help of this stack overflow thread, Is there any way to run unit and ui tests for azure devops with iOS?, I have created my azure-pipelines.yml similarly

# Starter pipeline
# Start with a minimal pipeline that you can customize to build and deploy your code.
# Add steps that build, run tests, deploy, and more:
# https://aka.ms/yaml

trigger:
- master

pool:
  vmImage: 'macOS-10.15'

steps:
- script: echo Hello, world!
  displayName: 'Run a one-line script'
- task: Xcode@5
  displayName: 'Running tests'
  inputs:
    actions: 'test'
    sdk: 'iphonesimulator'
    #configuration: 'Debug'
    #xcWorkspacePath: 'TeamDrawFramework/TeamDrawFramework.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace'
    xcWorkspacePath: 'TeamDrawFramework/TeamDrawFramework.xcodeproj'
    scheme: 'TeamDrawFrameworkTests'
    xcodeVersion: 'default'
    useXcpretty: true
    publishJUnitResults: true
    destinationPlatformOption: 'iOS' # Optional. Options: default, iOS, tvOS, macOS, custom
    destinationPlatform: 'iOS Simulator'# Optional
    destinationTypeOption: 'simulators' # Optional. Options: simulators, devices
    destinationSimulators: 'iPhone 8' # Optional. Default value: iPhone8 for Xcode 11 and iPhone 7 for other iOS projects; Apple TV for tvOS projects.
- task: PublishTestResults@2
  displayName: 'Publishing test results'
  inputs:
    testResultsFormat: 'JUnit'
    testResultsFiles: '**/junit.xml'
    mergeTestResults: true
    failTaskOnFailedTests: true

But whenever my pipeline runs, I get the error message:

xcodebuild: error: Unable to find a destination matching the provided destination specifier:
        { platform:iOS Simulator, OS:latest, name:iPhone 8 }

    Available destinations for the "TeamDrawFrameworkTests" scheme:
        { platform:macOS, arch:x86_64, variant:Mac Catalyst, id:4203018E-580F-C1B5-9525-B745CECA79EB }

    Ineligible destinations for the "TeamDrawFrameworkTests" scheme:
        { platform:iOS, id:dvtdevice-DVTiPhonePlaceholder-iphoneos:placeholder, name:Any iOS Device }
        { platform:iOS Simulator, id:dvtdevice-DVTiOSDeviceSimulatorPlaceholder-iphonesimulator:placeholder, name:Any iOS Simulator Device }
        { platform:macOS, variant:Mac Catalyst, name:Any Mac }
##[error]Error: /usr/bin/xcodebuild failed with return code: 70

I was able to run my tests from the command line fine through this command which essentially has the same flags set:

xcodebuild -project TeamDrawFramework/TeamDrawFramework.xcodeproj -scheme TeamDrawFrameworkTests -sdk iphonesimulator -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 12,OS=14.5' test

I’m not sure exactly what the problem is, but because available destinations from the error message is so sparse I believe it’s an issue with the Azure VM.

TLDR: Why is the only available destination

    { platform:macOS, arch:x86_64, variant:Mac Catalyst, id:4203018E-580F-C1B5-9525-B745CECA79EB }

when there should be a list of iOS simulators available?