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Building iOS or MacCatalyst Applications

Explore how to build, debug, and publish iOS and MacCatalyst applications with .NET MAUI. Understand the setup requirements for Mac and Windows, using Xcode and Visual Studio, and learn the command-line publishing process for MacCatalyst apps.

Since MacCatalyst is a platform that enables running iOS applications on a Mac device, the process of building both of these application types is similar. Both of these require a Mac device. Although it's possible to debug and publish either of these application types from Visual Studio on Windows, a paired Mac device is still required.

Debugging MacCatalyst and iOS apps on Windows

Before we can do anything with these application types on Windows, ...