Macos Iphone Simulator

Matt Cone January 1, 2013 TutorialsMacDeveloper

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Web developers know it’s important to test their websites on every web browser and device possible. And with the growing popularity of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, it’s only natural that they’ll also want to test their websites on all of those devices. But short of stocking up on a bunch of Apple products, how can developers preview their websites in iOS?

Actually, it’s easy. Anybody can do it by installing Apple’s iOS simulator on their Mac for free. This functional demo, complete with the mobile Safari web browser, allows you to preview your website or web application in iOS. It looks exactly the same as it does on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

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There are limitations to the simulator. You can’t install apps from the App Store in the simulator, so forget about playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted. And many of the apps that come preinstalled on iOS devices are not available in the simulator. Here’s the bottom line: This stripped-down simulator is great for testing websites, but not much else.

Installing the iOS Simulator on Your Mac

Ready to get started? The first step is downloading Xcode and installing the iOS simulator on your Mac. Here’s how to install the iOS simulator on your Mac:

  1. Download and install Xcode from the Mac App Store. It’s free!

  2. Right click on the Xcode icon in the Applications folder and select Show Package Contents, as shown below.

  3. Open the iPhone Simulator application. You can find the alias in Contents → Applications, as shown below.

  4. For easy access to the iOS simulator in the future, drag and drop the iOS Simulator alias on to your Desktop or the Applications folder.

  5. The iOS simulator is now installed and running on your Mac, as shown below.

As mentioned earlier, you’ll notice that the simulator is missing a lot of the applications and settings that come with every iOS device.

Rotating the Simulator

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Every iOS device has a gyroscope that keeps track of the screen’s orientation. For example, if you turn the device horizontally, iOS will automatically rotate the screen if you’re using an app that supports the feature. The simulator can rotate, too! It can be a useful tool when you’re developing a responsive website or web app.

Here’s how to rotate the simulator:

  1. Open the iOS simulator, if it’s not already open.

  2. Open the Safari app in the simulator.

  3. From the Hardware menu, select Rotate Left or Rotate Right. The simulator will rotate, as shown below.

To rotate the simulator back again, select a rotation option from the Hardware menu.

Simulating Different iOS Devices

What good would an iOS simulator be without the ability to switch between the different dimensions of the iPhone 4, iPhone 5, and the different versions of the iPad? The simulator lets you use them all on your Mac. Here’s how to simulate a different iOS device with the iOS simulator:

  1. Open the iOS simulator, if it’s not already open.
  2. From the Hardware menu, select Device, and then select the type of device you want to simulate.
  3. The simulator window will change to match the dimensions of the device you selected.

To restore the original window with the iPhone case as a border, select iPhone.

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Question or issue on macOS:

In my iPhone app, I have many ASCII arts which I need to insert into the database.

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I am using the simulator and pasting the textpic in the textview to insert the ASCII art to database.

Here the clipboard of simulator once pastes the art properly but when I copy another art then too it pastes the previous art into textview.

How to solve this problem? Is there a work around for this or any better approach?

How to solve this problem?

Solution no. 1:

I was getting frustrated with copy and paste in the simulator and couldn’t figure out what was going on.

Results were similar to what you describe: copy and paste would sometimes paste the same value as I had copied before, but not what I just copied to the clipboard.

I finally realized that the simulator has it’s own clipboard, separate from the main OS X clipboard.

You use the touch-based copy and paste commands to paste into your application from the simulator clipboard.

You can use the standard OS X copy paste shortcuts (Command-X,C,V) to paste from the system clipboard into the simulator clipboard.

So to copy and paste from Chrome (for example), you select the text in Chrome, Command-C to copy. Then switch to the simulator, Command-V to paste into the simulator clipboard. Then in your application, you simulate a touch in the textfield to bring up the paste option, then simulate a touch to the paste button to paste the simulator clipboard contents into the app.

The menu options do the same thing as the keyboard shortcuts–copy/paste between the system clipboard and the simulator keyboard.

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Now that I figured it out, I actually like it much better than if the simulator clipboard was automatically tied to the OS X clipboard.

Solution no. 2:

From Xcode 9.0 or above:

  • Open simulator

  • Click on “Edit” from top menus

  • Enable -> “Automatically Sync Pasteboard”

  • If already enable then disable it and enable again.

  • Long press to paste your text i.e copied

Below Xcode 9.0

  1. Copy text from anywhere
  2. Paste on the simulator by command (command + v), it will show nothing
  3. Then press (command + shift + v)

it works for me

Solution no. 3:

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⌘ +
C – Copies the contents of the iOS clipboard to OS X. This works for both text and images.
⌘ + ⇧ + C – Copies the selected text (or whatever else responds to the copy: selector in your app) to the iOS clipboard. This one does not appear in the menu.
⌘ + ⌃ + C – Copies a screenshot of the iOS app (without the simulator’s chrome) to the OS X clipboard (Use ⌘ + S to save it to a file on the Desktop instead).
⌘ + V – Copies the contents of the OS X clipboard over to iOS, but doesn’t paste it. Again, this works for both text and images.
⌘ + ⌃ + V – Pastes the OS X clipboard in the iOS app, but leaves the clipboard unchanged. This does not work with images.

Source: http://olemoritz.net/copypaste-in-the-ios-simulator.html

Solution no. 4:

In Xcode 9 or above:
1. Active simulator
2. Check menu “Edit -> Automatically Sync Pasteboard”
3. Enjoy 🙂

Solution no. 5:

This is strange issue in my pc. I have macOs Sierra 10.xx++ installed in my mac. What i do is ,

  1. Copy the content from your mac using command + c or keyboard.

  2. Now press command + v in the particular place you want to paste the content.

  3. Now Paste in the simulator using command + shift + v

Working well. Confirmed answer.!

Solution no. 6:

Check out the text property of the UITextView. Simply load your textpic into an NSString, and set that string to be the text property of the TextView.

Solution no. 7:

You can copy the content from mac using ⌘ + ⇧ + C and paste in browser url using ⌘ + V .

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It’s working for me.

Solution no. 8:

As a last step try to restart Xcode and iOS simulator
Menu -> Hardware -> Restart

Solution no. 9:

Got the solution:

From iPhone Simulator menu.

Third option: Restore Content and Settings.

You will lose all the apps installed in the simulator along with the settings.

Got this working for me.

Hope this helps!