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Automatically Reposition the iOS Simulator on Screen

Uncategorized Jul 12, 2011

If you work with two monitors of different sizes, Xcode has an annoying bug of launching the iOS Simulator partially off screen — forcing you to manually drag it into position using the mouse. It’s not that bad the first time, but after a full eight hour working day with hundreds of launches, it gets very tedious.

Luckily, we can solve this with Xcode 4’s new “Behavior” settings and a little AppleScript.

Open up your favorite text editor and create the following script:

#!/bin/sh
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to set position of window 1 of process "iOS Simulator" to {-864, 134}'

Where where {-864, 134} are the {X, Y} coordinates you’d like the simulator positioned at.

Save the script somewhere appropriate and select it as a new “Run” command in Xcode’s “Run Starts” behavior.

Xcode Run Behavior