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That explains the difference, but what's the purpose?
by RussianCow 2mo ago
That explains the difference, but what's the purpose?
- a012 2mo agoYou can test your application, game, website without a physical phone?
- leoh 2mo agoCan do that with the simulator too
- refulgentis 2mo agoRunning 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)
- RussianCow 2mo agoCan you give some examples of where it matters? I'm genuinely curious.
- bradfitz 2mo agoLast I checked, VPN network extensions wouldn't run in the simulator.
- afavour 2mo agoIt’s been years but I ran into a problem with a notification extension years ago. Worked fine on simulator, not on device. Turned out it was because I was using a HEIF image and (I think) the on-device extension was trying to use hardware decoding and didn’t have access to it. Meanwhile the simulator had no such sandboxing restrictions. The difference doesn’t matter until it does, and then it’s infuriating to work out what’s going on.
- gitgud 2mo ago> The difference doesn’t matter until it does, and then it’s infuriating to work out what’s going on. I love this quote, reminds me how annoying it can be when something isn’t reproducible locally… only in production…
- DonHopkins 2mo agoTesting AR apps, or any app that relies on hardware you can't simulate easily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43b5ywnYpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43b5ywnYpo
- dingdongditchme 2mo agoIs the simulator faster than this? I would suspect so.
- cfn 2mo agoI have had instances where the app runs fine on the simulator but crashes on the device. This might solve that.
- leoh 2mo agoIf 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
- Sajarin 2mo agoLooks like apple services compatibility is not currently supported for this [0] [0] https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli/discussions/175 https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli/discussions/175
- discordance 2mo agoIf you read a bit further, there's a jailbroken variant that has Sileo and Trollstore installed, so you can run whatever IPAs
- QuantumNomad_ 2mo agoWhere? Edit: ah now I see, in the main readme under heading Firmware Variants. https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli#firmware-variants https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli#firmware-variants
- rvz 2mo agoExactly. It means it cannot download apps from the App Store or use Apple services and Apple knows this deliberate limitation.
- VladVladikoff 2mo agoSpam. Click farms. Etc.
- trollbridge 2mo agoIt 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 2mo agooh. is this why icloud spam texts are running wild now
- greggsy 2mo agoNo, it’s just trivial to generate iCloud email addresses that won’t get picked up by spam filter.
- whynotmaybe 2mo agoThe 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?
- gcampos 2mo agoYou cannot run Network Extensions on the simulator
- landr0id 2mo agoIt'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.