RC sending non-specific file format to simulator no longer opens Files app to import

Up until yesterday (previous Xcode builds) when I send a file from the Mac to the simulator, either by right-click or drag and dropping, the simulator opened the Files app to import/save the file. Now when I do the same, instead of the iOS simulator opening the Files app, it opens Safari and asks if I want to download the file, if I agree the file is supposedly download but nowhere to be found.

By a non-specific file format is a file format that is not set up to open any specific app, such is the case of PDF, JPG, MP4, MD, etc. A zip file, for example.

I constantly send database backup files to the simulator to then import in my app (it has an import tool that lets me select a file from the filesystem) to test, but now I see myself unable to use this because the file I send is not being transferred.

Has anyone came across this?

It'd be helpful for us to get a bug report on this change in behavior, and please include a simulator sysdiagnose by running the xcrun simctl diagnose command after you reproduce this behavior. Once the report is filed, please include the FB number here for reference.

Here's another thread from a different forums account also reporting the same thing, just to help everyone find the different discussions about this.

— Ed Ford,  DTS Engineer

RC sending non-specific file format to simulator no longer opens Files app to import
 
 
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