How to find the iOS simulator folder

Question

I'm looking for the specific location in the filesystem where the iOS simulators are stored that Xcode downloads for you. I've been looking in the usual locations like /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs or ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator but no luck.

Does anyone know the specific location that they're downloaded into?

Queer

Answer 1

They are installed to /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes (Not ~/Library!)

Afflux

Seems to be outdated – Led

Nope. This is not outdated. This is where we still install the DLC simulator runtimes. CoreSimualtor looks inside of Xcode.app, /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes, and ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes for runtimes. – Afflux

As of now, yeah it is likely outdated. On my M1 machine with Sonoma 14.5, none of these locations exist. – Culberson

Answer 2

The accepted answer no longer works (at least for me – macOS 14.5, Xcode 15.4), but I found these paths instead:

/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/iOS_20E247/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS\ 16.4.simruntime/

/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/iOS_21F79/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS\ 17.5.simruntime/

Culberson