iPhone Simulator location

Question

Where on my machine is the iPhone simulator installed?

I\'m been trying to find where a test application I run in the simulator is stored.

Answer 1

To find the most recent install of your application in the simulator, you can use this command:

find "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator" -type d -name 'YourAppName.app' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -td | head -1

Don't forget to replace YourAppName with the name of your app!

Answer 2

Simulator: ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/

You can browse simulator files from that directory in Mac OS X.

Answer 3

On El Capitan and Xcode 7.2 and 7.3 I found the Simulators here: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/

• Simulator
• Simulator (Watch)

Answer 4

As of Xcode 6 and iOS 8 you’ll find it here:

~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/{cryptic number}/data/Containers/Data/Application/{cryptic number}/

or you can get it from below code execution:

 NSLog(@"Documents Directory: %@", [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLsForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory inDomains:NSUserDomainMask] lastObject]);

Answer 5

I found the easiest way to find it programmatically. Run the app and put NSLog() for [NSBundle MainBundle], it will show you the whole path of the app running in simulator.

Answer 6

It took me a while, but I just found mine at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/iOS\ Simulator.app