How to download iPad Mini simulator

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Solution 1

By popular demand, Xcode now includes the iPad mini Simulator. It is not created by default, but you can use the Xcode Devices & Simulators window or xcrun simctl from the command line to create one.

For example, to create an iPad mini 4 simulator with Xcode 11.2:

xcrun simctl create "iPad mini 4" com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPad-mini-4 com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-13-2

Solution 2

I don't know about the earlier releases but you can do this on Xcode 10.2.1(or later)

Select Add Additional Simulators... from the active scheme:

Then press + to create new Simulator and select iPad mini in Device Type:

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Updated on May 07, 2020

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Harshil Kotecha about 4 years

I want to test my application on iPad mini screen in Xcode 8.2, but I could not find the simulator for the same.

I have also tried to add simulator Hardware > Device > click bottom add menu but here I do not see any option to download the iPad mini simulator.