The options for iOS are external or internal, the default is internal. The options are, png, tiff, bmp, gif and jpeg. This will allow us to specify the image format that we want to use for the output image. for ScreenshotĮach operation has a list of arguments, for screenshot we have the following:

This is where we will specify screenshot as our operation, but, later on in this tutorial we will replace screenshot with recordVideo as the operation. Simulators that are running will have (booted) next to their name and id. IPhone 11 Pro Max (A0B631C2-F65A-47CD-9749-6FC350AEE345) (Shutdown)Īs you can see, at the end of each line it will say (shutdown) or (booted). This will print out a list of simulator devices, the output will look something like this: - iOS 14.0. To list the devices you can do the following, xcrun simctl list. Īs the name suggests this is the device that we want to use when we run an operation. That might look a bit confusing, so I will go through each one of the inputs/arguments. How can we use this to take a screenshot? TL DR: We can use the following to take a screenshot of the currently running simulator - xcrun simctl io booted screenshot ~/Desktop/screenshot.pngĪll we need is the following command: xcrun simctl io Taking a screenshot from the terminal is surprisingly easy, all we need to do is use xcrun. The second way is to use the button that you can find above the simulator: Screenshot iOS simulator with the terminal(xcrun) The first and fastest way is to use the following shortcut, command + s.

There are two ways that one can screenshot the iOS simulator without the command line. Screenshot iOS simulator without command line In this tutorial I will show you how you can take a screenshot with or without the command line, as well as showing how to record a video of the simulator using the command line. Taking a screenshot or recording a video of the iOS simulator can sometimes be useful, whether it is for the App Store or maybe for some internal use case that the company or your team has.

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