Select the desired keyboard from the Input menu. This screenshot shows the keyboard layout chooser with the Swiss German layout selected: The new keyboard layout is added to the list of available layouts. Press the Add button (+) to show the keyboard layout chooser.Ĭhoose the desired keyboard, and press Add. Open System Preferences, and choose the Keyboard preference. Note: For the simulator to automatically switch keyboard layouts when the Mac layout is changed, both Connect Hardware Keyboard and iOS Uses Same Layout As OS X must be selected. Choose the same menu item again to enable the option. However, if you do feel a need to disable it-allowing you to select completely different keyboard layouts for your Mac and Simulator-choose Hardware > Keyboard > iOS Uses Same Keyboard Layout As OS X. For most cases, leave this option selected. If you have chosen Hardware > Keyboard > iOS Uses Same Keyboard Layout As OS X, Simulator automatically selects the keyboard that most closely matches the keyboard layout of your Mac. For you to most accurately simulate a device in Simulator, the simulator uses iOS keyboard layouts, as opposed to OS X keyboard layouts. Simulator can use the keyboard on your Mac as input to the simulated device.

Take a screenshot of the simulated deviceįor information on specific ways of interacting with iOS and watchOS devices, see Interacting with iOS and watchOS.įor information on interacting with tvOS, see Interacting with tvOS. Use the Mac keyboard for input in multiple languages Other interactions, such as manipulating the user interface, differ between touch-based devices and Apple TV and are covered in different chapters. This chapter covers ways of interacting that are common to all platforms. Interacting with Simulator differs from interacting with an actual device. Simulator runs devices from different platforms including iPhone, iPad, iWatch, and Apple TV. For Xcode 9 and later, see Simulator Help by choosing Help > Simulator Help in Simulator.

The information in this document is deprecated in Xcode 9.

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