{"id":49055,"date":"2025-08-27T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49055"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:36:57","slug":"ios-simulator-files-app-broken-by-symlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/ios-simulator-files-app-broken-by-symlink\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Simulator Files.app Broken by Symlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2025\/8\/5.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/2025\/8\/5.html\">\n<p>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&rsquo;t share a file on my Mac with the simulator. I couldn&rsquo;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&rsquo;t even create a new folder in the Files app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The cause was that I had created a symbolic link from <code>~\/Library\/Developer\/CoreSimulator<\/code> to <code>\/Users\/Shared\/Developer\/CoreSimulator<\/code> on 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 the <code>CoreSimulator<\/code> directory inside the <code>~\/Library\/Developer<\/code> directory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: 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&rsquo;t share a file on my Mac with the simulator. I couldn&rsquo;t save a file on the simulator, for example from my own app or from the Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-27T12:37:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"feae9aba-98c1-4fff-9500-0fae650daee6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-27T12:37:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_q6aupjBT_-VAA-uZQ2u5g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[131,1582,30,2598,71,1959,2787],"class_list":["post-49055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-bug","tag-files-app","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-programming","tag-simulator","tag-symbolic-links"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49056,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055\/revisions\/49056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}