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Is LAContext evaluateAccessControl not supported in the simulator?

When I try calling evaluateAccessControl on an LAContext in the iOS simulator I get an LAError with the localizedDescription: "This call is not supported in Simulator" (code -1000).

Is evaulateAccessControl simply not supported in the simulator?

For reference I created the SecAccessControl which I'm evaluating with kSecAttrAccessibleWhenPasscodeSetThisDeviceOnly protection and [.userPresence, .privateKeyUsage] flags. I'm passing .useKeySign as the operation param for evaluateAccessControl.

Solution

  • I have no authoritative source for this, but empirically, the answer to the question is clearly yes. LAContext.evaluateAccessControl is not supported in the iOS simulator.