Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Xcode 6 - iPhone Simulator Folder

In Xcode 6, the location of the applications on the iPhone Simulator has changed. Prior to iOS 8, the location of the Documents folder of your app can be found here:

/Users/weimenglee/Library/Application\ Support/iPhone\ Simulator/<iOS_Version>/Applications/<application_id>/Documents 

In xCode 6, the location of the simulator has changed to:

/Users/weimenglee/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/

However, this location contains a list of folders for different types of simulators. If you go into this folder, you will see something like this:


Each folder correspond to a specific iPhone Simulator. To know which folder corresponds to which simulator, use the following command in Terminal:

Weis-Mac-mini:~ weimenglee$ xcrun simctl list
== Device Types ==
iPhone 4s (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-4s)
iPhone 5 (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-5)
iPhone 5s (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-5s)
iPhone 6 Plus (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-6-Plus)
iPhone 6 (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-6)
iPad 2 (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPad-2)
iPad Retina (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPad-Retina)
iPad Air (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPad-Air)
Resizable iPhone (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.Resizable-iPhone)
Resizable iPad (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.Resizable-iPad)
== Runtimes ==
iOS 7.0 (7.0 - Unknown) (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-7-0) (unavailable, runtime path not found)
iOS 7.1 (7.1 - Unknown) (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-7-1) (unavailable, runtime path not found)
iOS 8.0 (8.0 - 12A365) (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-8-0)
== Devices ==
-- iOS 7.0 --
-- iOS 7.1 --
-- iOS 8.0 --
    iPhone 4s (8C1303A2-C590-4822-BB9B-12EC32035C8C) (Shutdown)
    iPhone 5 (402C822D-567F-4F3A-B113-1499C5A7949C) (Shutdown)
    iPhone 5s (B6D71F6A-E94B-47ED-AF25-882FDEF8E6F5) (Shutdown)
    iPhone 6 Plus (5BCD1507-6F06-4D66-B71D-47670EB703B2) (Shutdown)
    iPhone 6 (00100565-4E4D-4D9A-A875-544E0A6E4F4F) (Booted)
    iPad 2 (187D75DD-824D-4381-AE2F-BDF57FEB87E0) (Shutdown)
    iPad Retina (604667D3-8366-4147-B0AD-F7840198713C) (Shutdown)
    iPad Air (01D6AEBC-F12A-47EE-82CB-0140AF117AE0) (Shutdown)
    Resizable iPhone (9C138BCD-BFB9-4AEB-A218-F0F99F678220) (Shutdown)
    Resizable iPad (4966C908-AAA7-43EC-8E3A-EADF8BFA3C05) (Shutdown)
Weis-Mac-mini:~ weimenglee$ 

In my example here, I am looking for iPhone 6, which has the device id of 00100565-4E4D-4D9A-A875-544E0A6E4F4FYou can then go into this folder and the following path shows the folder that contains all the applications installed on this simulator:

/Users/weimenglee/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/00100565-4E4D-4D9A-A875-544E0A6E4F4F/data/Containers/Data/Application/

You can now locate your specific application and find the Documents folder:

/Users/weimenglee/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/00100565-4E4D-4D9A-A875-544E0A6E4F4F/data/Containers/Data/Application/FD7949EA-7D39-4BC6-95F4-77F320592651/Documents/


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