Unable to interact with controls on screen

Hi there!

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The simulator(s) is not an emulator.

And while it can work well to test basic app logic, your users are on devices. Not testing on devices your app targets is asking your users to test for you, and if that means negative reviews, you'll be lucky to recover in the store.

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• Can't test headphones output
• Can't simulate plugging/unplugging TV Out cable(s)
• Game Center...?
• iOS Simulator doesn’t simulate accelerometer or camera hardware
• Simulator has some known leaks that do not occur on the actual device.
• Text encoding conversion(s) on the simulator are inherited from Mac OS X, which has more extensive text encoding support than iPhone OS.

Hi again!

The simulator will work just fine so long as you will not have to use anything that requires physical motions (like gyro, etc.). You could not use the camera in the simulator either.

On another hand, Apple actually recommends that you test your application on an actual device before uploading it to the App Store. But this is something you will have to decide on your own. I have both an iPad, iPhone and a iPod I am testing my applications on, and I really have to say that it is much more fun when you could actually take with you the app you have created in your pocket.

But, as said, a simulator would work just fine as long no gyro, camera, etc. is required.

Hope this was some help 😝