Where does the iPhone Simulator store its data

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I have a SQLite DB that I m using to store app data  and I could do with taking a look inside it to debug a problem I m having - but where does the iPhone Simulator store its data  typically

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if anyone is still experiencing this problem in lion, there is a great article with 19 different tips to view your ~/Library dir. find the article by Dan Frakes here http://www.macworld.com/article/161156/2011/07/view_library_folder_in_lion.html

Remember the directory to the simulator is given below

~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/

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For macOS Catalina  I found my db in     Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices  deviceId  data Containers Data Application  applicationId  Documents my db   To get the applicationId  I just sorted the folders by date modified  though I m sure there s a better way to do that

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For Xcode6  iOS8     Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices  DeviceID  data Containers Data Application  AppID    Accepted answer is correct for SDK 3 2 - SDK 4 replaces the  User folder in that path with a number for each of the legacy iPhone OS iOS versions it can simulate  so the path becomes     Library Application Support iPhone Simulator  OS version  Applications  appGUID    if you have the previous SDK installed alongside  its 3 1 x simulator will continue saving its data in     Library Application Support iPhone Simulator User Applications  appGUID

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For react-native users who don t use Xcode often  you can just use find   Open a terminal and search by with the database name     find   Library Developer -name  myname db     If you don t know the exact name you can use wildcards     find   Library Developer -name  myname

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iOS 8   Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices  Device ID  data Applications  appGUID  Documents

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Found it     Library Application Support iPhone Simulator User

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In iOS 5     Users  User Name  Library Application Support iPhone Simulator 5 0 Applications  AppGUID

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One of the most easy ways to find where the app is within the simulator  User  NSTemporaryDirectory     Steps-   Apply breakpoint anywhere within the app and run the app  When the app stops at the breakpoint  type following command in Xcode console   po NSTemporaryDirectory     See the below image for a proper insight  Now you have the exact path upto temporary folder  You can go back and see all app related folders    Hope this also helps  Happy Coding

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I have no affiliation with this program  but if you are looking to open any of this in the finder SimPholders makes it incredibly easy

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There is another  faster   way to find where your app data is without Terminal    Launch the app in the simulator Open Activity Monitor Find the name of your app in the CPU tab Double-click it and open the  Open Files and Ports

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With Xcode 5 you may use the code below    import  lt Foundation NSFileManager h gt    and   NSString  homeDir   NSHomeDirectory    NSLog       homeDir     The result may look look like     Users  lt your user name gt  Library Application Support iPhone Simulator 7 1 Applications hhhhhhhh-hhhh-hhhh-hhhh-hhhhhhhhhhhh    Where hhhhhhhh-hhhh-hhhh-hhhh-hhhhhhhhhhhh is some hex string identifying your iOS app

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Simply do this   NSString  docDirPath    NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory  NSUserDomainMask  YES objectAtIndex 0   NSLog        docDirPath     And you will get somethink like this       Users admin Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices 58B5B431-D2BB-46F1-AFF3-DFC789D189E8 data Containers Data Application 6F3B985F-351E-468F-9CFD-BCBE217A25FB Documents   Go there and you will see the document folder of your app regardless of the version of XCode   Use  Go to Folder     command in Finder and specify a path    library     Swift version for string path   let docDirPath   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains  documentDirectory                                       userDomainMask  true  first print docDirPath    and folder URL   let docDirUrl       FileManager default urls for   documentDirectory                               in   userDomainMask  first print docDirUrl

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To Open the dictories where you App are that you build in xCode on the simulators  do the following    open a Finder windor   smiley face icon   then click GO -  Go to Folder type    Library Application Support iPhone Simulator The Directories are the iOS version of the different Simulators The Sub Directories are the Apps install on the simulator The Documents folder is where the user generated content which gets backup up onto iCloud

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For iOS 8  To locate the Documents folder  you can write a file in the Documents folder   NSArray  paths   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory  NSUserDomainMask  YES   NSString  documentsDirectory    paths objectAtIndex 0   NSString  fileName    documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent   Words txt    NSString  content     Apple    content writeToFile fileName atomically NO encoding NSStringEncodingConversionAllowLossy error nil     say  in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions   Then you can open a Terminal and find the folder     find   Library -name Words txt

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Easiest way ever   Catch a Breakpoint somewhere   Enter po NSHomeDirectory   in console window   Result    lldb  po NSHomeDirectory    Users usernam Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices 4734F8C7-B90F-4566-8E89-5060505E387F data Containers Data Application 395818BB-6D0F-499F-AAFE-068A783D9753

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Where Xcode stores simulators in 2019  Catalina  Xcode 11 0 Runtimes   open   Library Developer CoreSimulator Profiles Runtimes For example  iOS 13 0  watchOS 6 0 These take the most space  by far  Each one can be up to  5GB Devices   open   Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices For example  iPhone Xr  iPhone 11 Pro Max  These are typically  lt 15 mb each  Explanation Simulators are split between runtimes and devices  If you run   xcrun simctl list you can see an overview  but if you want to find the physical location of these simulators  look in these directories I ve shown  It s totally safe to delete runtimes you don t support  You can reinstall these later if you want

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Looks like Xcode 6 0 has moved this location once again  at least for iOS 8 simulators        Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices  DeviceID  data Containers Data Application  AppID

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For Xcode 4 6 it gets stored in the following path      Users  currentuser  Library Application Support iPhone Simulator 6 1 Applications   To know it programmatically use the following code    NSLog   path       NSBundle mainBundle bundlePath

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If the Simulator is running you can get the path to any app s container   xcrun simctl get app container booted  lt app bundle identifier gt    Example output     xcrun simctl get app container booted com example app  Users jappleseed Library Developer CoreSimulator Devices 7FB6CB8F-63CB-4F27-BDAB-884814DA6FE0 data Containers Bundle Application 466AE987-76BC-47CF-A207-266E65E7DE0A example app    booted  can be substituted to most simctl commands anywhere a device UDID is expected   You can see the list of devices with xcrun simctl list and get help on specific commands with xcrun simctl help   Update  By popular request in Xcode 8 3 you can now specify the kind of container you want by appending  app    data    groups   or an app group identifier   To get the data container     xcrun simctl get app container booted com example app data

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You can try using the below code  NSString  fileName     Demo pdf       NSArray  paths   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory  NSUserDomainMask  YES       NSString  documentsDirectory    paths objectAtIndex 0       NSString  pdfFileName    documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent fileName       NSLog   File path    pdfFileName

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On Lion the Users  username  Library is hidden   To simply view in Finder  click the  Go  menu at the top of the screen and hold down the  alt  key to show  Library    Click on  Library  and you can see your previously hidden library folder   Previously advised   Use  chflags nohidden  users  username  library   in a terminal to display the folder

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