# Ionic fails to build with XCode 7 **URL:** \ **Category:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 26, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-fails-to-build-with-xcode-7/33276 "2015-09-26T16:15:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lauriehocking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@lauriehocking](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/lauriehocking)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-fails-to-build-with-xcode-7/33276/1 "2015-09-26T16:15:29Z")
I have been working through the thinkster tutorial on ionic and ran into a problem. Essentially, the build failed when running: $ ionic emulate ios -1 The reason being it stated it expected a 6.x version of XCode. Rather than 7. I ended up uninstalling XCode 7 and installing 6.4. At which point it worked fine. Does anyone know if ionic are looking to resolve this issue so that we can use XCode 7? ---
**Author:** ![encodedmirko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/encodedmirko/32/84116_2.png) [@encodedmirko](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/encodedmirko)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-fails-to-build-with-xcode-7/33276/2 "2015-09-27T14:23:23Z")
I’m using Ionic with Xcode 7 and it works fine. Make sure you have the latest Ionic and Cordova versions by doing an `npm update -g`. ---
**Author:** ![lauriehocking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@lauriehocking](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/lauriehocking)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-fails-to-build-with-xcode-7/33276/3 "2015-09-27T15:08:59Z")
Hmm interesting… I only installed ionic within the last couple of weeks so I would hope its up to date. I shall try updating them however and going back to XCode 7 and seeing what happens.