Xcode 5 deployment target limited only to iOS 7

Question

What should be done for me to have the deployment target lower that 7.0 in my project preferences? Now any new project I create using Xcode 5 can only be deployed to iOS 7.0. That's how it looks:

Answer 1

Had the same issue. All I did was to change Architectures to Standard architectures (armv7,armv7s) - exclude the 64 bit. See screenshot.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. I solved it with these steps:

1. project > Build Setting

2. Deployment tab > iOS Deployment Target

so:

Answer 3

You can directly type a different target (5.0, 5.1, etc) into the text box :)

The only thing to note is you will need to change the architecture to exclude ARM64 if you go below 7.0.

Answer 4

You can follow my answer here to use the iOS 6 SDK on XCode 5 but you need to have XCode 4 installed on your Mac.

But I think you can just set the Deployment Target to iOS6, in the configuration of the project :