iOS7 - can't view the storyboard as iOS6 - ios6

There is an option in the utilities pane to view a layout of a screen as iOS 7 or iOS 6.1 and it worked for me when I was working on the iPhone storyboard. But when I switched to the iPad storyboard, the option for viewing it in iOS 6.1 is disabled. Here is a screen shot:
You see where the cursor is? It shows iOS 6.1 is disabled. Would anyone know how to enable that option?
Thank you!
EDIT:
And here are some settings for the project:

set your deployment target to something lower than 7.0.
if you deploy to 7.0 only, your app won't run on 6.x anyway and thus an ios 6 storyboard-look doesn't make any sense.
you may need to configure the deployment target both in your project and your storyboard/xib (info pane on the right).

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