Xcode: iOS Simulator Dev Menu will not open

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Specs: React Native, xCode, iOS Simulator

I'm currently running xCode and just trying to start my hello world however despite numerous approaches I cannot get the dev menu in the iOS Simulator to open. The hotkey CMD + D will not work.

I have tried:

  1. I checked and unchecked the simulator keyboard settings, “Connect Hardware Keyboard”. Reference
  2. I have tried “Reset Content and Settings” in the simulator menu.
  3. Switching between scheme settings for the project. “Check your scheme settings. The current scheme shows at the top of Xcode. Click on it, then Edit Scheme. Under "Run", make sure the build configuration is set to Debug. If it's set to something different, you won't get the dev menu.” Reference
  4. Restarting the simulator and restarting my mac.
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xcodereact-nativeios-simulator
Click on simulator, in application menu go: Hardware > Shake Gesture. Or SHIFT + CMD + Z, or CMD + DD (D two times). You can use CMD + R for reload. Make sure that Debug > Slow Animation is not checked! – Aleksandar Popovic

2 Answers

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I also faced the same issue and after searching a lot I finally got a solution.

Create a fresh project by react-native init and see if it(dev menu) works or not? If it does, just upgrade the react-native version of your project. In my case, creating a fresh project worked.

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I faced a similar issue when the default launch device as iPhone 11. But when I ran the command to run with iPhone 11 Pro developer menu came back. May be specific to a device on my machine. https://reactnative.dev/docs/running-on-simulator-ios

"react-native run-ios --simulator='iPhone 11 Pro'"

To list all devices

xcrun simctl list devices