How to check device id of iPhone simulator?

Question

I want to check device id for my iPhone simulator application. But not using codebase. I know the way how to do with codebase, using UIDevice instance.

Is there any way to find device id without using codebase?

Answer 1

You can also retrieve the same UDID, labeled as "Identifier," in the Xcode Organizer by selecting "My Mac" from the list under Devices.

Answer 2

As so often, there is a Xcode terminal tool for that (part of the Xcode tools) see xcrun manpage

xcrun simctl list | egrep '(Booted)'

lists only all booted (could be more than one) Simulators (remove | egrep '(Booted)' to see them all).

UIID results like

 iPhone 6 Plus (AAAABD40-9DE6-44B7-A4EA-B34ABCDEFCA6) (Booted)

you can then lookup a folder in ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Deviceson your Mac and find all the "belongings" of that particular Simulator

Answer 3

Try this

instruments -s devices

Answer 4

There is another way without using command line, inside this plist file ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/device_set.plist, it lists down all the devices with UUID.

Answer 5

Xcode -> Window -> Devices and Simulators -> Select Device for which you want identifier (Inside details you can see identifier)

Answer 6

Is the iPhone Simulator UDID unique for each installed instance?

This answer should be what you want. Look at System Profiler on your mac and the id is there. I just tested on my machine and the IDs match.

This is the exact Terminal command you can enter to view it:

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType