appium: Simulator boot taking too long in XCode 15.2 - failing with Simulator has failed to finish booting after .

Do I have the most recent component updates?

• I use the most recent available driver/plugin and server versions

Is the component officially supported by the Appium team?

• I have verified the component repository is present under the Appium organization in GitHub

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

When moving to XCode 15.2 and iOS 17.2, the simulator is taking too long to boot and it fails with:

The simulator <id> has failed to finish booting after <time_in_seconds>

Expected Behavior

With XCode 14.2, the simulator boots in 45 seconds approximately. Because of the above failure, the tests are taking too long and timing out in our pipelines.

Minimal Reproducible Example

N/A

Environment

• Operating system: macOS 13.x
• Appium server version (output of appium --version): 2.0.0-beta.58
• Appium driver(s) and their version(s): xcuitest-4.21.1
• Appium plugin(s) and their version(s): no plugins
• Node.js version (output of node --version): 16.20.2
• npm version (output of npm --version): using yarn 1.22.19
• Last component(s) version which did not exhibit the problem: The appium and appium driver versions are same, but when using it with XCode 14.2 it did not exhibit this issue.
• Platform and version under test: iOS 17.2
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Simulator

Link to Appium Logs

https://gist.github.com/rohanp-91/7f6698a54648ed9ed60c32807da16302

Further Information

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