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To open a custom URL scheme (or any website) in a simulator.
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xcrun is a tool to run any tool inside Xcode from the command line. The tool for this job is simctl, which help you manage simulators.
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xcrun is a tool to run any tool inside Xcode from the command line. The tool for this job is simctl, which help you manage simulators.

To open a custom URL scheme (or any website) in a simulator.

Run your app in the Simulator.
Open Terminal.app (located in /Applications/Utilities)
Enter the following command and hit ⏎ Return.

xcrun simctl openurl booted <url>

Example

xcrun simctl openurl booted acme://test

This will simulate what we used to do in Safari, but a lot easier and faster.

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