iPhone Simulator: SpringBoard failed to launch application with error: 7

Question

Building an iPhone project results in:

Failed to launch simulated application: SpringBoard failed to launch application with error: 7

Answer 1

When a home directory mounted in NFS you have the problem with the simulator.

To get rid of it, you need to to create a couple of directories in some local place where you have permissions to write, "iPhone Simulator" and "Interface builder". Then remove "~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator" and "~/Library/Application Support/Interface Builder 3.0". And finally create symlinks at the exact places of the removed directories pointing to the local directories.

Answer 2

That did it for me, too:

This happens to me when i switch from testing on the device to testing on simulator. Restarting Xcode and simulator gets rid of this error for me.Silly.

Answer 3

For mine, I got the error when I tried to change the App bundle ID setting in my info.plist file for the sake of running a test. Changing it back cured the problem, but didn't do me any good for the test. Thankfully, the app had loaded in the simulator and I ran it manually for my test.

As far as I can tell, the problem stemmed from having a bundle ID that matched both a specific ID and a wild-card ID. The App IDs I've tried that match only a specific ID/Profile haven't shown a problem.

Answer 4

It happens to be related to folder name as well. My image folder was originally named "contents" and I got the error described.

Changed the folder name to "image_files" and reimport it to Xcode project as "folder". It works!

This is totally random...

Answer 5

I had the same problem but this solution works...!!! 1)Deleting the app from simulator. 2)Quitting simulator. 3)Restart simulator.

Answer 6

This happens to me when i switch from testing on the device to testing on simulator. Restarting Xcode and simulator gets rid of this error for me.Silly.