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c#iosdynamicudid

Get UDID of iOS Simulators programmatically using c#

I am using c# visual studio to automate iOS apps and the simulators UDID gets changed every time, I do not want to manually type the UDID of simulator every-time... I need help where the system automatically gets the UDID of the booted simulator

Solution

  • You can launch from C# a system tool simctl , to see manual page, launch in Terminal:

    xcrun simctl help

    You can get list of devices in JSON format and find device with state Booted:

    xcrun simctl list --json devices available

<...>
{
        "dataPath" : "\/Users\/admin\/Library\/Developer\/CoreSimulator\/Devices\/2BE68BC5-02C0-4B1C-92EC-E80CCE713144\/data",
        "logPath" : "\/Users\/admin\/Library\/Logs\/CoreSimulator\/2BE68BC5-02C0-4B1C-92EC-E80CCE713144",
        "udid" : "2BE68BC5-02C0-4B1C-92EC-E80CCE713144",
        "isAvailable" : true,
        "deviceTypeIdentifier" : "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-12-Pro-Max",
        "state" : "Booted",
        "name" : "iPhone 12 Pro Max"
      },
<....>

    Or in less convenient for C# way:

    xcrun simctl list | grep Booted

    You can find path to xcrun with:

    which xcrun