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Testing on a real iPhone or iPad

Devices can’t be cabled to our Macs; use simulators here and TestFlight for real hardware.

Your Mac is in our rack in Sydney, so you can’t plug an iPhone into it, and Xcode’s wireless debugging only finds devices on the same local network as the Mac.

Related

Install Xcode and simulatorsSign in with your own Apple Account, install Xcode, accept the licence, add simulators.Set up your Mac for iOS developmentThe order to do things in: connect, Xcode, your Apple Account, GitHub, then your first build.Build and test from the command linexcodebuild and the simulator over SSH: list schemes, pick a simulator, build and run tests.

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