iOS Upgrade Test in the simulator.

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Created Nov ’16

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Hello,

we have an issue that occurs only when updating devices OS from iOS 9 to iOS 10. Since we run out of all of our devices that were on iOS 9 and apple stopped signing iOS 9.3.5, we are no longer able to downgrade our testing devices back to iOS 9 for further testing purposes.

We would like to ask following:

Is there any way to test iOS system upgrade in the simulator?
I was able to simulate it partially by copying files from iOS 9 simulator to a simulator with iOS 10, and then running the application, but was not able to complete this process yet due to some files missing on the iOS 10 simulator. I am still working on this solution.
Is there still a way to downgrade back to iOS 9 for non-jailbroken devices?

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

Best,

Matti

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Answer 1

AnhTai OP

May ’17

No one can do this ?

I have the same problem with this...

Please help me out !!!

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Answer 2

Developer Tools Engineer OP

Apple

May ’17

Actually... Sort of...

It doesn't do a system upgrade exactly like on device, but you get a similar experience. Do the following:

xcrun simctl create "Test Device" com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-6s com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-9-3

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xcrun simctl upgrade "Test Device" com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-10-3

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