Simulator since XCode update completely broken

Since one of the last updates of XCode, there are two very annoying bugs in the simulator that just don't get fixed. What's going on Apple? You kill my productivity.

  1. There is a red bar reading "rdar" and some numeric string at the top. You can get rid of it by going to Settings -> Developers -> Zoom -> Larger Text (then change it back). Took a while to find that.

  2. I have a German laptop with a QWERTZ keyboard layout. Now when I type, it somehow sends keys from an US keyboard to the simulator. Since I don't have the labels, I don't know what the hell I'm typing. Very frustrating.

Please fix this.

Thanks for your post.

Please check this post about this issue here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/807280

Last Update? beta or release? Can you provide the version of Xcode and Simulator? What's that simulator iOS version?

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Hey @DTS Engineer thanks for your reply.

I am using the release version, no Beta.

Xcode Version 26.2 (17C52)

Simulator iPhone 13 mini, iOS 18.5 Version 26.0 (1062.1) SimulatorKit 954.5 CoreSimulator 1051.17.7

Thanks for providing this, do you have the same results when you run it on a newer simulator as it seems like you still using 18.5 and 26.0? Have you tried a simulator in 26.2? I believe this was an issue on previous versions, please do update Xcode, macOS and use the latest simulators.

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Simulator since XCode update completely broken
 
 
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