Macos Iphone Simulator

  

Matt Cone January 1, 2013 TutorialsMacDeveloper

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?

Or you can grab the Simulator.app via Finder. Just go to Applications folder Xcode.app right click Show Package Contents Contents Developer Platforms iPhoneSimulator.platform Developer Applications iPhone iOS Simulator.app (the path may different, I’m using Mountain Lion) To create a shortcut. Download iphone simulator for free. Developer Tools downloads - Apple iPhone SDK by and many more programs are available for instant and free download.

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.

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? Online countdown clock to any date. 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.

Iphone emulator for mac

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

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.

Macos Iphone Simulator

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.

Macos Iphone Simulator Download

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

Air Iphone

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Iphone Emulator For Mac

Hi, whenever I launch the iPhone Simulator just from my Applications folder I get a black screen, same happens when I change hardware and software versions of iOS. I'm running Xcode 3.2.4 and trying it from a clean install. When I try to build an app from Xcode the simulator launches in iPhone mode and just beechballs. with the same black screen.
I'm getting some stuff in the console, not sure what it all means but here it is.
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.marcod.tcpdump.en0) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.marcod.tcpdump.en0) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Caches/com.apple.marcod.tcpdump.en0': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.managedconfiguration.profiled) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.managedconfiguration.profiled) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/ConfigurationProfiles/profiledRunning': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.managedconfiguration.profiled) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.managedconfiguration.profiled) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/ConfigurationProfiles/MCOutstandingNagComputation': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.managedconfiguration.mdmd) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.managedconfiguration.mdmd) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/ConfigurationProfiles/MDMOutstandingActivities.plist': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.dataaccess.dataaccessd) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.dataaccess.dataaccessd) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dataaccess.launchd': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.calaccessd) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.calaccessd) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Preferences/com.apple.calaccessd.keepalive': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.pdp_ip0) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.pdp_ip0) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Caches/com.apple.aps.tcpdump.pdp_ip0.plist': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.pdp_ip0) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.pdp_ip0) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Preferences/com.apple.aps.tcpdump.pdp_ip0.plist': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.en0) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.en0) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Preferences/com.apple.aps.tcpdump.en0.plist': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.en0) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.aps.tcpdump.en0) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Caches/com.apple.aps.tcpdump.en0.plist': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.apsd) Bug: launchd corelogic.c:4598 (24108):2
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.apsd) Path monitoring failed on '/Users/Johnathan Barrett/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.1/Library/Preferences/com.apple.apsd.launchd': No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 iPhone Simulator[4323] Could not create GlobalPreferences.plist destination directory error = You don’t have permission to save the file “4.1” in the folder “iPhone Simulator”.
12/10/2010 10:53:21 iPhone Simulator[4323] Could not copy GlobalPreferences.plist error = The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory
12/10/2010 10:53:21 vot[4326] ****** AX INSPECTOR MODE **********
12/10/2010 10:53:21 vot[4326] ** Running VoiceOver Lite **
12/10/2010 10:53:21 vot[4326] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Johnathan%20Barrett/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone% 20Simulator/4.1/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
12/10/2010 10:53:21 SimulatorBridge[4327] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Johnathan%20Barrett/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone% 20Simulator/4.1/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
12/10/2010 10:53:21 [0x0-0x15c15c].com.apple.iphonesimulator[4323] 2010-10-12 10:53:21.424 SimulatorBridge[4327:4003] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Johnathan%20Barrett/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone% 20Simulator/4.1/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
12/10/2010 10:53:21 installd[4328] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Johnathan%20Barrett/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone% 20Simulator/4.1/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.mobile.installd[4328]) Exited with exit code: 255
12/10/2010 10:53:21 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.mobile.installd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
12/10/2010 10:53:31 installd[4329] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Johnathan%20Barrett/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone% 20Simulator/4.1/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
12/10/2010 10:53:31 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.mobile.installd[4329]) Exited with exit code: 255
12/10/2010 10:53:31 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[305] (com.apple.iPhoneSimulator:com.apple.mobile.installd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
I'm running an intel iMac on 10.6.4. There's also other people in the office having the exact same problems so I know it's not just my computer.
Ever happened to anyone before? Is thre a quick fix?
Thank
J.Barrett

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Mac Os Iphone Simulator Download

Posted on Oct 12, 2010 2:55 AM