IPhone Connectivity Testing: How do I force it to lose connection?

Question

Apple wants me to give the user a friendly apology if I can\'t find an internet connection. Using the Reachability Demo, this was easy enough. I want to take it a step further a

Answer 1

You could install Apple's Network Link Conditioner

On Yosemite:

Network Link Conditioner can be found in the "Hardware IO Tools for Xcode" package. This can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Downloads page. Once the download has finished, open the DMG and double-click "Network Link Condition.prefPane" to install (source).

With this preferences panel you could create a profile with 0kbps speed.

On older versions of OSX:

Mountain Lion / Mavericks: Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools
Lion: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Network Link Conditioner