iOS SDK 1.10.4 ships no simulator slice for INSCameraSDK or INSCoreMedia

[gregpakes]

Summary

In the iOS SDK 1.10.4 bundle, INSCameraSDK.xcframework and INSCoreMedia.xcframework contain only an ios-arm64 (device) slice. 1.9.2 shipped ios-arm64-simulator for both. This makes it impossible to build an app that links the SDK for the iOS Simulator.

Evidence

From the INSCameraSDKSample-bluetooth/Frameworks directory of the 1.10.4 bundle:

$ plutil -p INSCameraSDK.xcframework/Info.plist
{
  "AvailableLibraries" => [
    0 => {
      "LibraryIdentifier" => "ios-arm64"
      "SupportedArchitectures" => [ 0 => "arm64" ]
      "SupportedPlatform" => "ios"
    }
  ]
}

INSCoreMedia.xcframework is the same. For comparison, the same two frameworks in 1.9.2:

framework	1.9.2	1.10.4
INSCameraSDK	ios-arm64, ios-arm64-simulator	ios-arm64 only
INSCoreMedia	ios-arm64, ios-arm64-simulator, watchOS	ios-arm64 only
INSCameraServiceSDK	device + simulator + watchOS	device + ios-arm64-simulator
SSZipArchive	device + ios-arm64_x86_64-simulator	unchanged

So the omission is specific to INSCameraSDK and INSCoreMedia — the other two still ship simulator slices, which is what suggests this is an oversight in the release job rather than a deliberate change.

Impact

Any target that links the SDK cannot be built for the simulator. In practice that means:

• unit and UI tests that build the app target cannot run in CI (xcodebuild test -destination "platform=iOS Simulator,...")
• developers without a camera on their desk cannot run the app at all
• SwiftPM/CocoaPods integrations fail at module resolution, some distance from the actual cause

Nothing on a simulator can talk to a camera — there is no BLE — so the simulator slice only needs to compile and link, not function.

Workaround

We build our vendored xcframeworks from two bundles: device slices from 1.10.4, simulator slices from 1.9.2. That works, but it pins us to 1.9.2's headers for simulator builds, so we cannot adopt any 1.10.x-only API until this is resolved.

Ask

Publish ios-arm64-simulator slices for INSCameraSDK and INSCoreMedia alongside the device slices, as 1.9.2 did.