Protip: you’ll need to likely have the latest version of Safari to pair with Xcode, be sure you have all the latest OS X updates installed. Go back to Safari and click on the development and select your iOS simulator you’d like to inspect. Launch your iOS Simulator, and fire up safari and go to the web page you’d like to perform inspect element/ use the javascript console on. Make sure show Development menu is checked. Launch Safari on your computer and go to settings and to “Advanced” However if you hit command-v (paste) then command-shift-V you can directly paste text into text fields. You can copy and paste text into the iOS Simulator which requires tediously hitting paste on the open simulator window, then tapping and holding and pasting using the simulator itself. You can quit Xcode and the iOS simulator will stay launched

Protip: Once launched, you can permanently position the iOS simulator in your dock and skip Xcode altogether. Once launched either right click the icon in dock or locate it from the Open Developer Tool located under Xcode. Launch Xcode (you may need to agree to Apple’s terms and conditions and wait as it installs component if its your first launch). I added instructions on how to download different iOS versions. I’ve since updated the instructions to reflect this.

Xcode 7 has been out for awhile now, and these instructions are still valid but a new user may not realize that. Xcode is a free download from the Mac App store. You’ll need to download and install Xcode for OS X to access the iOS simulator. This will print NSHomeDirectory() in Xcode console on app launch.I’m revisiting one of my more popular posts, Using Xcode iPhone Simulator to Develop Mobile websites, which is nice but a little out of date. To get the path to our application directory on the simulator, we will add a print statement inside application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) method in AppDelegate class.

Migrate larger parts of your apps to SwiftUI while reusing views and controllers built in UIKit.

Update your UIKit apps with iOS 16 features such as Swift Charts and Lock Screen widgets.

Use Xcode previews when designing and building UI.

Discover various ways to add SwiftUI views to existing UIKit projects.

A detailed guide on gradually adopting SwiftUI in UIKit projects.

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