[Maverick] No simulator found with name "iPhone 13"

[jamonholmgren]

Describe the bug

When trying to run a new Maverick project with Xcode 14, I get this:

npx ignite-cli new PizzaApp
cd PizzaApp
yarn ios

Ignite version

Maverick

Additional info

no

[jamonholmgren]

Workaround is to run:

yarn ios --simulator="iPhone 14"

[joshuayoes]

Is it possible this has to do with Xcode using an old workspace from a previous PizzaApp?

[frankcalise]

This is baked into RN it seems?

https://reactnative.dev/docs/running-on-simulator-ios#specifying-a-device

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68933467/npx-react-native-run-ios-is-picking-non-existing-simulator

[frankcalise]

1. Open Xcode workspace for existing project and select the device at the top

2. Select Add Additional Simulators... from the menu

3. Create an iPhone 13 simulator

4. Run yarn ios or yarn expo:start and you're good to go

[joshuayoes]

@jamonholmgren do we want to leave this issue open? This seems like an upstream issue to me

[joshuayoes]

I did just run into this trying to do Detox tests. Perhaps there is a way we could detect in Ignite whether the default simulator is available and print a warning?

[frankcalise]

@joshuayoes perhaps we can pipe the output from applesimutils --list and see if it matches the detox config?

[Gurminder-Kaler]

add this "iphone13": "npx react-native run-ios --simulator=\"iPhone 13 Pro\"", in your script in package.json file and then run "npm run iphone13"

[joshuayoes]

@frankcalise I like that solution, it appears we may be able to install simulators for Xcode.

So perhaps the following logic may be good to add somewhere in the new command:

1. Check if iPhone 13 is in applesimutils --list or xcrun simctl list devices output
2. Warn user that default iOS simulator is not installed
3. Give sample output of workaround (yarn ios --simulator="iPhone 14")
4. Offer to run command to install default iPhone 13 simulator to Xcode (xcrun simctl create "iPhone 13" "iPhone 13" iOS 15.5

[joshuayoes]

add this "iphone13": "npx react-native run-ios --simulator="iPhone 13 Pro"", in your script in package.json file and then run "npm run iphone13"

@Gurminder-Kaler I'm not sure that will solve what we want. I'm trying to use your command with iPhone 7, which is not a simulator on my machine, and my xcode just resolves to the first one that isn't that version

[jamonholmgren]

Closing as "not our bug"