How You Can Device Test Iphones and Apple Devices For Free Using Xcode

holly bourneville
2 min readMay 25, 2023
Photo by Bagus Hernawan on Unsplash

Firstly make sure you download Xcode onto your computer , i think its only available for download on Mac, sorry windows users!

Once you have it installed and set up you will see a screen like this, close this screen.

Xcode start screen.

Once you have closed this click on Xcode in the top left of your screen and choose Open Developer Tool -> Simulator

Once you click simulator it will open up with a iPhone device to test on. You can them simply “use” the device like normal, e.g click on safari and enter the URL you are wanting to test.

If you wish to change the device your using, choose open simulator and choose another.

If the device you want to test on isn't in this list already choose new simulator from the menu and add any apple device you…

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holly bourneville

Hi Im Holly! I’m from New Zealand. I’m in my first job as a Front End Web Developer and want to share my learnings and thoughts along the way!