iOS5 Storyboard error: Storyboards are unavailable on iOS 4.3 and prior iOS5 Storyboard error: Storyboards are unavailable on iOS 4.3 and prior xcode xcode

iOS5 Storyboard error: Storyboards are unavailable on iOS 4.3 and prior


I also got this problem and finally I solved this by following procedure:

  1. Open XXXXXX.storyboard
  2. Open Identity and Type tab in your right view of Xcode.
  3. Set the value of Development in Document Versioning to "Xcode 4.2" (my default value is "Default Version (Xcode 4.1)".
  4. Change the value of Deployment from Project SDK Version (iOS 5.0) to iOS 5.0, then back to Project SDK Version (iOS 5.0)

Rebuild the project and the error should be resolved.


The solution that worked for me was just to delete the ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData directory for my project.


I'm just going to add this one as another possible answer here, as the first solutions worked for me several times (as I mentioned in my previous comment) until today when I couldn't get my project to compile for love nor money with the same error.With the debugger changed and Xcode set to 4.2 and restarting several times I could not compile. However I discovered another way to get around this issue.

Select the storyboard in the left column and 'Show in Finder' and drag the storyboard to the desktop. Xcode will now change its colour to red and be unable to compile.

Clean the project, drag the storyboard back from the desktop to the directory in finder.

Then, it builds and the error goes away again.

I don't know what triggered the error originally as I'm developing under iOS5 and building for 4.3, but it seems to come up from time to time and.