Capture screenshot or record video of the iOS Simulator using Terminal

An alternative to using Quicktime or other ways of screengrabbing the simulator

Capture screenshot/photo of the iOS simulator

Usage:
xcrun simctl io booted screenshot myImageScreenshot.png

Steps:

1. Launch simulator
2. Open Terminal and enter the above command
3. The current directory will contain your saved screenshot

Record a video of the iOS simulator

Usage:
xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo myNewVideo.mov

Steps:

1. Launch simulator
2. Open Terminal and enter the above command, this will start the video recording
3. When you are done recording, hit CTRL & C

The current directory will contain your saved video

Comments

[Hunter Peress]

Super Cool!!! Thank you!!