However, I’ll show you two of my favorite ways to quickly start the simulator. However, once the installation is complete it’ll take less than 5 minutes to have a full iOS experience loaded onto your computer.īecause the simulator is connected to Xcode it does take a couple steps to load the environment. Xcode is a fairly large package and, depending on your internet connection speed, could take anywhere from 10-30 minutes to download.
What you’ll need to do is download Xcode (which is free on the Mac App store). Download and Install XcodeĬurrently, Apple doesn’t provide a stand-alone simulator app. Today, let’s take a look at setting up an iOS simulator on OS X. This post is a follow up to my previous Setup Android Lollipop Emulator on OS X post which covered the basics of setting up an Android emulator on your machine.
