iPhone shows Question mark (in place of its icon) on connecting to the Mac

Question

I have a (dev) build for the iPhone App & I need to install it on the iPhone that has been given to me.

Now, I have added the iPhone as a device to the provisioning profile for the App.

But, When I connected the iPhone to my mac, Question mark appears in place of its icon (in XCode > Windows > Organizer). And the options under the device are limited to Device Logs and Screenshots.

And on right hand side detail appears : "The version of iOS on “iPhone” does not match any of the versions of iOS supported for development with this installation of the iOS SDK. Please restore the device to a version of the OS listed below, or update to the latest version of the iOS SDK; which is available here." Which clearly means that ihave to update my iOS SDK for the XCode that I am using.

Is there any way to do, like without updating the XCode for latest iOS SDK, I can install the App to the iPhone provided to me ???

Answer 1

You just build the app, and locate the .ipa file from the products. Then drag the ipa file into itunes and then sync it to your device.

Answer 2

If you have got the Xcode project..then you would have to update Xcode..that is the only solution..

but if you got the build in .ipa format.then you should register your device on www.testflightapp.com and then transfer that ipa from there to your device..