react-native run-ios can not find any simulator

Question

I have been facing an issue where \'react-native run-ios\' can not start, regardless of the simulator I add to the --simulator argument. XCode has the correct location for t

Answer 1

Update

It is fixed in v1.9.8.

Update cli is the easy solution

npm install -g react-native-cli@latest

---

This issue is fixed but not released yet. https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-cli/pull/274

So it can be solved temporarily to fix the file below.

/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/runIOS/findMatchingSimulator.js

Change this line

if (!version.startsWith('iOS') && !version.startsWith('tvOS')) {

to

if (!version.includes('iOS') && !version.includes('tvOS')) {

Do not forget apply this again when you reinstall packages.

Answer 2

I've found a temporary fix:

In the following file:

/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/runIOS/findMatchingSimulator.js

...change line 42 to:

if (!version.startsWith('com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS') && !version.startsWith('tvOS')) {