How to check if an app is in the Simulator in Swift

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Two flowers that represent Swift and XCode side by side with the text "isSimulator" beneath them.

Use #if targetEnvironment(simulator) #endif to determine if an app is being run in the simulator.

A screenshot of XCode showing the helper function that determines if the app is in the simulator.

The code demonstrated above can be found in the Utils/System folder of our open source starter projects linked below.

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