Using Frida on XCode Simulator

Question

Does anyone has experience with setting up Frida to work with XCode Simulator? I have been searching online but this is the closest thing I've got ( https://programmersought.com/article/54464074345/ ) However, when I compile and run the app on simulator, I did not see what was described in "quick smoke test". Any help is very appreciated !

Answer 1

As iOS simulator is essentially running apps on your native mac OS host, you can interacts with apps directly as if they are running on your machine.

In a nutshell:

• Don't use -U argument as iOS simulator is not a USB device
• frida-ps should give you a list of running processes, including the apps running on the simulator.
• The rest of the APIs should work in the same way they do for mac OS host.