Converting Storyboard from iPhone to iPad

I found out a kind of solution:

1. Duplicate your iPhone-Storyboard and rename it MainStoryboard_iPad.storyboard

2. Close Xcode and then open this file any text editor.

3. Search for targetRuntime="iOS.CocoaTouch"and change it to targetRuntime="iOS.CocoaTouch.iPad"

4. Change the code in the MainStoryboard_iPad.storyboard from:

   <simulatedScreenMetrics key="destination" type="retina4"/> to

   <simulatedScreenMetrics key="destination"/>

5. Now save everything and reopen Xcode. The iPad-Storyboard has the same contents as the iPhone-file but everyting could be disarranged.

This saved me hours - hopefully this will help you

If you had created a universal project, by default empty iPad storyboard would have been created, you just have to select iPhone storyboard select all (Command+A), copy (Command+C) and paste it on iPad storyboard. Make sure to move the entry point from the empty storyboard to newly copied storyboard before compiling.

That didn't quite work for me. I did something a little bit different.

1. Create a new story board file for the iPad version
2. Open both the new file and the file i want to copy in textwrangler (text editor)
3. Copied the xml text from old file to the new file between these xml tags
4. First Tag <scenes> <!--Contents View Controller-->
5. Paste Here
6. End Tags </class> </classes>

That worked for me. I got a new layoutout with all my outlets connected, which alone saved me a few hours.