Comment by restes
5 hours ago
The iOS Simulator consists of (some of) the userspace components of iOS compiled to run on macOS. This would be a full iPhone image running as-is via virtualization.
5 hours ago
The iOS Simulator consists of (some of) the userspace components of iOS compiled to run on macOS. This would be a full iPhone image running as-is via virtualization.
That explains the difference, but what's the purpose?
The simulator doesn't have a camera. The android emulator allows to configure the camera and use a picture, it's very handy to test your qr/barcode reader without needing to use a physical device. Maybe this also allows to use an image as camera?
You cannot run Network Extensions on the simulator
You can test your application, game, website without a physical phone?
Can do that with the simulator too
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Spam. Click farms. Etc.
It would also make testing far easier. I got bit with something that failed on real life iPhones with language set to es_US that worked fine on the simulator.
oh. is this why icloud spam texts are running wild now
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If functional, you can download apps from the App Store, sign in to iCloud.. probably do a bunch of agentic stuff as if you had a real device
Looks like apple services compatibility is not currently supported for this [0]
[0] https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli/discussions/175
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