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Jinesh
Jinesh

Reputation: 841

iPhone simulator running invisible

iPhone simulator is running on my Mac but it's not showing the simulator. Two days back I had installed the Mac OS X 10.5.6 update. Xcode is launching the aplication in simulator, and it's running, as I can see the outputs on the gdb console window. But the simulator is not shown.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 2922

Answers (6)

Ernazar Sembayev
Ernazar Sembayev

Reputation: 46

If you are using new versions of MacOS and you do not have the Detect Displays button, then change the text size to any other {Larger text, More Space}. And the hidden emulator will automatically appear

Upvotes: 0

Mohamed Dernoun
Mohamed Dernoun

Reputation: 825

Downloading the latest ios resolved the problem, in my case iOS 17.2

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Upvotes: 0

Mussa Charles
Mussa Charles

Reputation: 4442

Nothing worked except the good old IT joke, Turn it off & on again! (Completely restarting the whole machine worked for me).

Upvotes: 0

epatel
epatel

Reputation: 46041

Try to remove ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphonesimulator.plist

Upvotes: 13

jaaronfarr
jaaronfarr

Reputation: 828

Had the same issue. The simulator was running somewhere way off screen. Could see it using expose, but couldn't move it.

Rather than using "Detect Displays", which didn't work for me, I changed the screen resolution and that popped it back into place.

Upvotes: 7

Lyndsey Ferguson
Lyndsey Ferguson

Reputation: 5384

Have you previously had an external monitor connected? Perhaps Mac OS X saved the simulator window off-screen the last time it was run?

In the System Preferences, select Displays and click the "Detect Displays" button while the simulator is running. That should force the simulator window to appear on-screen.

Upvotes: 2

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