Iphone Simulator Mac Without Xcode

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The Simulator includes a simulation of Mobile Safari which resembles the real thing. I haven't played with it enough to have a personal opinion on the accuracy of the simulation, but it's gotten some excellent reviews from web app developers who've been using it to test their sites. E.g.: [http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/2405/apples-iphone-simulator-almost-good-real-t hing].
You can launch the Simulator, without using Xcode, by navigating to /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications
- Ray

Yes, it’s completely possible. Assuming your VM is set up, open up the Mac App Store. Install Xcode from the Mac App Store, it’s free, but it’s a big download, so make sure you have something to do while it’s downloading. From Xcode menu Open Developer Tool - Simulator. From simulator select the device where you want to install the application. Open the Terminal application and execute the following command: xcrun.

Simulator

Oct 19, 2009 2:46 PM

Question or issue on macOS:

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

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.

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.

Install Ipa On Ios Simulator

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:

⌘ +
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 .

It’s working for me.

Solution no. 8:

Install Ipa On Simulator

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

Solution no. 9:

Got the solution:

Mac

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!