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| ▲ | whynotmaybe 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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? |
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| ▲ | landr0id 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's useful for security research since you can do kernel debugging and inspection of the device not possible in the simulator. As others pointed out it's also useful for e.g. click/spam farms which need a "real" iPhone. |
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| ▲ | gcampos 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You cannot run Network Extensions on the simulator |
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| ▲ | a012 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You can test your application, game, website without a physical phone? |
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| ▲ | leoh 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Can do that with the simulator too | | |
| ▲ | cfn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have had instances where the app runs fine on the simulator but crashes on the device. This might solve that. | |
| ▲ | refulgentis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Running on ported userspace components, with a shim, isn't the same as running on the OS in itself. That really matters, sometimes. But not the vast majority of the time. (source: been coding iOS since pre-SDK iPhone OS 1.0) | | |
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| ▲ | VladVladikoff 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Spam. Click farms. Etc. |
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| ▲ | trollbridge 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | trueno 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | oh. is this why icloud spam texts are running wild now | | |
| ▲ | greggsy 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, it’s just trivial to generate iCloud email addresses that won’t get picked up by spam filter. |
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| ▲ | leoh 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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 |
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