iOS Simulator Files.app Broken by Symlink
I found that the Apple Files app was broken in the simulator, which prevented me from setting up my app properly for my screenshots. I couldn’t share a file on my Mac with the simulator. I couldn’t save a file on the simulator, for example from my own app or from the Apple Photos app, in the Files app. I couldn’t even create a new folder in the Files app.
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The cause was that I had created a symbolic link from
~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulatorto/Users/Shared/Developer/CoreSimulatoron my Mac. Apparently the Simulator app did not like that now, even though it worked before: my symlink is not new. Perhaps the Xcode 16.4 update broke it. The solution was to delete the symlink and go back to keeping theCoreSimulatordirectory inside the~/Library/Developerdirectory.
