If you are facing issues launching your iOS application in VS Code, then try to analyse the Debug Console of your application.
If you see things like this:
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/Newtonsoft.Json.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/System.Reflection.Emit.Lightweight.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/System.Reflection.Emit.ILGeneration.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/System.Reflection.Primitives.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/System.Data.Common.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/Syncfusion.Maui.Inputs.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/ZF.Packages.Maui.Fonts.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/ZF.Packages.Maui.Views.Alerts.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/Refit.HttpClientFactory.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/Microsoft.Extensions.Http.dll
Loaded assembly: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/50529075-A03E-45EC-99F6-0A539036E226/app.app/MetroLog.Maui.dll
And then your application suddenly crashes showing the splashscreen, then the debugger might be slow.
XCode 15 have problems with debugging. If you have “Connect via network” enabled on your XCode settings under Devices and Simulators, than this might be the problem. Even if you are connecting your phone wired, it starts the application debugging via wifi.
Try updating XCode to 15.4, and update your OS to macOS Sonoma 15.4 aswell
You can countercheck this problem by disabling the wifi on your physical device. In this case the app installs, but crashes instantly when trying to launch it.
Additionally in Visual Studio code the solution you can disable some settings in the C# extension’s settings the Debug > Logging to speed up the loading progress when launching your app.
