Xcode is the Mac app that you use to build apps for iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS. You use Swift programming, and the many tools inside Xcode, to build applications for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and more. Xcode is an IDE, an Integrated Development Environment, which essentially means that Xcode includes many additional tools for development.
Silly question, but. I am not been able to see the device appearance when running the iPhone simulator. I don't remember after which XCode update this started but the iPhone simulator shows only as a simple window without showing the device case like it used to be Mountain lion system. (see this image).
- Choose Xcode Open Developer Tool Simulator. Control-click the Xcode icon in the Dock, and from the shortcut menu, choose Open Developer Tool Simulator. To launch a watchOS Simulator without running an app. Do one of the following: Choose Xcode Open Developer Tool Simulator (watchOS).
- Manually Install iOS Simulators in XCode Find the Download URL. The first thing you have to do is find the file that you need to download. To do this, open up. Download the Simulator Manually. Now that you have the url of the file, you can download it however you like.
- The simulator is just an application, and as such you can run it like any other application. To run the simulator straight from terminal prepend these locations with the open command. Xcode 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x.
- Install Simulator in XCode. Now we need to tell XCode that the file is ready to install. So go back to the simulator installation window in XCode by clicking on 'Preferences Components'. Click the download arrow next the simulator you are installing and you should see the progress bar move a.
That's how my simulator looks like:
Is there a way to make it look like an actual iPhone 5?
EDIT: Unfortunately in my hardware->device options I see only iPhone retina (which is currently selected), but there are no more options. So it seems like the default beheaviour to look like a thin window, unless I missed out some other configuration.
Here is what I see overlayed to a user answer.
Xcode Add Simulator
The Simulator window only shows an iPhone (4/4s) bezel when:
The simulated device is a 3.5 inch non-Retina iPhone, and
The window scale is 100%.
In Xcode 5, you can't do the first one unless you download the iOS 6.1 simulator, because 3.5 inch non-Retina devices are not supported by iOS 7.
(For simulated devices other than 3.5-inch non-Retina, you'll also see a bezel at 100% scale, but this bezel doesn't look exactly like any particular device.)
If you want device images to use in promotional artwork for your app, see Apple's App Store Marketing Resources page.
First of all this does with retina devices.
STEP 1: Follow this step if you using Xcode 5 as you need to download the iOS simulator.
Go to XCode,
- Open the main XCode
Preferencesoption thenDownloads. Click oniOS 6 SimulatorChange to the simulator you want by going to the
'Hardware' menu. Close the simulator. Run the project.
STEP 2:
As you required just change device from Hardware -> device to iPhone as shown in the image.
And in the next step be sure set the window scale to 100 %.
For some reason it looks like an iPhone on my retina Macbook Pro, but not on my iMac.
They're probably looking at the resolution of the Mac, which doesn't really make sense, since you see less at 2880×1800 retina, than 1920×1080 non retina.
The problem I think is not with your XCode, but with your display. Check this : iPhone skin on Simulator
Check this Goto IOS Hardware >>Device >>iPhone
then window +1
Unfortunately it works like that for anything else – there is no option to show a case for any other simulators.
Absolutely correct, im using IOS simulator 7.0, there is no option regarding this. i did every possible step to make it look like iPhone but hard luck IOS simulator not having this option in Devices.
Xcode Install Simulator
I've had this issue also. As indicated earlier, I went to preferences, downloads and then clicked on the ios 6.1 download. After installing it gave me the option of the 'iphone'. This option actually looks like the iphone. After the install it still includes the retina options as well.
It could be a scaling issue. In the simulator toolbar, go to Window -> Scale, and make sure that 100% is checked. Regarding how to enable iPhone non-retina if not shown, I wrote some steps in my blog on how to do it.
Tags: iphone, xcode
You might have noticed that after upgrading to Xcode 11 with iOS 13 SDKs, Xcode's list of iOS Simulators to run your app on does not include the iPhone SE simulator any more. The iPhone SE simulator comes very handy because we still need to support this device hence the need to test on it. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to get the simulator back to the list of available simulators in Xcode 11. In fact, you're going to learn how to add many other missing simulators to your list.
Click on the active scheme to reveal the context menu:
Note that the list does not contain the iPhone SE simulator. Click on the 'Add Additional Simulators…' button:
It could be a scaling issue. In the simulator toolbar, go to Window -> Scale, and make sure that 100% is checked. Regarding how to enable iPhone non-retina if not shown, I wrote some steps in my blog on how to do it.
Tags: iphone, xcode
You might have noticed that after upgrading to Xcode 11 with iOS 13 SDKs, Xcode's list of iOS Simulators to run your app on does not include the iPhone SE simulator any more. The iPhone SE simulator comes very handy because we still need to support this device hence the need to test on it. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to get the simulator back to the list of available simulators in Xcode 11. In fact, you're going to learn how to add many other missing simulators to your list.
Click on the active scheme to reveal the context menu:
Note that the list does not contain the iPhone SE simulator. Click on the 'Add Additional Simulators…' button:
In the new window that opens, select the 'Simulators' tab and then click on the plus button in the lower left corner of the window:
Iphone Xcode Simulator Games
This opens new sheet which enables you to create new simulator. Click on the 'Device Type' menu to reveal a menu full of possible simulators:
Select the iPhone SE simulator (or any other that you'd like to add) and then click on 'Create':
You just added the iPhone SE simulator to the list of available simulators in the scheme menu:
Iphone 11 Simulator Xcode
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