@rurikoaraki @tido64 I confirmed from #3499 that it's not macOS 13 or Xcode 15 that is the problem, but the Azure Devops public image pools for macos-12 and macos-13. I'm not sure why still, if I had to assume. probably something to do with SIP. I've also mostly confirmed that we don't have many alternative pools we can use for macOS images (@dannyvv fyi). So my thoughts are as follows:

• Dig deeper into why iOS E2E tests specifically fail on these images
• Run a test to see if the GitHub Action images do allow the E2E tests to pass
• Keep folllowing through to see if we can get a different pool to use (I doubt this one).

@rurikoaraki @tido64 I confirmed from #3499 that it's not macOS 13 or Xcode 15 that is the problem, but the Azure Devops public image pools for macos-12 and macos-13. I'm not sure why still, if I had to assume. probably something to do with SIP. I've also mostly confirmed that we don't have many alternative pools we can use for macOS images (@dannyvv fyi). So my thoughts are as follows:

• Dig deeper into why iOS E2E tests specifically fail on these images
• Run a test to see if the GitHub Action images do allow the E2E tests to pass
• Keep folllowing through to see if we can get a different pool to use (I doubt this one).

EDIT:

By increasing timeouts it seems to be working now. So actually... I think the new VMs were just that much slower........ 🤦

OK, post FHL update #2:

Between this PR and #3499 , I think I've only had like.. 2 of 10 successful runs with iOS E2E tests. I'm pretty sure it's because with the newer VMs, they are much more hardware constrained and the iOS simulator launches much slower. Even when it passes, the total job takes ~1-1.5 hours, rather then the ~30 minutes it takes currently. Given that, I feel uneasy "upgrading" as it would be a devX decrease. I think my next test would be to rewrite the job in GitHub Actions, and see if that pool is any better (I suspect much better, and also macOS 14). @rurikoaraki @tido64 FYI. Also I'm not sure if React Native 0.73 requires Xcode 15, but this will eventually become blocking. React Native macOS most likely does.

FWIW, 0.73 does require Xcode 15. I tried compiling it with Xcode 14 when I was debugging the visionOS condition and it did not like it at all.

FWIW, 0.73 does require Xcode 15. I tried compiling it with Xcode 14 when I was debugging the visionOS condition and it did not like it at all.

OK. That makes this PR part of the 0.73 effort, and now a much higher priority :D