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

For testing in the simulator I make great use of Little Snitch. It's a very useful application for writing rules as to what can communicate with the outside world and for how long.

It will also notify you if an application wishes to access the internet on the fly and you can temporarily restrict access for either that time, that session or forever.

As for testing on the device, I log into my wireless router and temporarily disable either the network or turn on restriction by MAC ID for the duration of the test.