No Photos in iPhone Simulator. How to add photos?

mkroll · August 2008

Hi all,
it seems, that the sample photos included in the iPhone Simulator are deleted after resetting the simulator as well.

Is it possible to add images to the simulator again in order to test an application using a UIImagePicker?

Thanks,
Michael.

safa_uk · August 2008

I had the same problem and its because I clicked on the "Clear iPhone Cache and Content" but it seems to get rid of everything,

all you need to do is just re install the whole of xcode again, you don't need to uninstall first just install over previous and the images will be back on the iPhone simulator.

the good thing as well is that you dont loose any of your xcode settings.

hijinks · August 2008

I got this from a IRC chat room. All the directorys and file names are case sensitive. So when I use. JPG I mean use JPG not jpg.

Place your images in

~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Media/DCIM/100APPLE

Create the 100APPLE if it is not there

Rename your files like

IMG_0000.JPG
IMG_0001.JPG
IMG_0002.JPG

That will put them in the photo album. You do not see thumbnails though. I haven't figured that out.. I was told make copies and name them THM file types but i didn't get it to work.. but its better then re-installing.

DevTeamOfOne · August 2008

you could just access the net via the web browser in the simulator.

find an image.

Hold your click on it.

it will popup asking if you want to save an image to your library.

Do so.

Tada.

cacaodev · August 2008

Sorry but what does "hold the click" means in the simulator ?

-TX-

Jeremy1026 · August 2008

cacaodev wrote: »

Sorry but what does "hold the click" means in the simulator ?

-TX-

I would assume it means click but don't release the mouse button.

Kent · November 2008

The Safari method also gets you thumbnails.

scottiphone · November 2008

Just drag your own photos to safari on the iphone.
Press and hold to save them.

hemalimojidra · November 2008

make new application on iphone in sdk.

and make UIImage objects of your images which you want to see in your iphone

put this in applicationDidFinishLonching function

UIImage * sShot = [UIImage imageWithName:@"imageName.jpg"];
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(sShot, nil, nil, nil);

This two line will save your imageName.jpg image file in your iphone similator.

do this for your all images..

jeff_lamarche · November 2008

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City41 · November 2008

scottiphone wrote: »

Just drag your own photos to safari on the iphone.
Press and hold to save them.

Exactly. Dragging a photo into the simulator opens it in Safari. Doesn't have to be so difficult people

cameron50 · August 2009

How would I reinstall xcode?

aryaxt · February 2010

thanks this worked, u can also drag and drop images into simulator, and then save them

rocotilos · February 2010

Yep, just drag any image from any where in your mac, into the iphone sim screen. that'll open up the safari inside the simulator. then you click and hold on the image, a actionsheet will pop up and select Save Image. you're done.

for me, i always backup the images, which is under ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Media/DCIM/100APPLE to another folder. So when I do a Reset Settings for iphone sim, i then just copy it back to that place.

RobinSummerhill · September 2010

Dragging photos into the simulator is OK if you have just one or two. If you need to import more then check out this article. It describes how to do a bulk import of photos with correct generation of thumbnails and updating of the photos database. It works on all versions of the simulator including 4.x.

TapTouchClick · September 2010

I made a quick app that scraped google images and saved the first page all to photos album. Let me see if I can find the project.

JohnAvatar · October 2010

Someone said it! All you have to do is find your image, or images (I used JPEG's), drag them into the simulator window. Safari will open with your image in the browser window. Left click (if on a MacBook Pro, or use your mouse) on the image, a popup window should open offering for you to save your image. Click on save and your image(s) will be in your Photo app.

That's it! Very simple.

Thanks to all for the clues.... I was wondering how to do this and I was looking for the complicated solution, like dragging images to a Simulator folder somewhere, but you guys pointed me to just dragging images to the simulator window!

Because of that, I've now registered to this site as one of my favorite iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch developer resources.

Thank you,
John Avatar

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xpous · December 2010

Is there a way with the SDK to acquire the images from the images in Photo Albums uploaded from iTunes?

mkroll wrote: »

Hi all,
it seems, that the sample photos included in the iPhone Simulator are deleted after resetting the simulator as well.

Is it possible to add images to the simulator again in order to test an application using a UIImagePicker?

Thanks,
Michael.

dany_dev · December 2010

xpous wrote: »

Is there a way with the SDK to acquire the images from the images in Photo Albums uploaded from iTunes?

no, you need to copy it on the right simulator directory.

JohnAvatar · December 2010

I testing this out, but yeah, as someone said, open up the Apple iOS simulator and drag an image to the simulator window (iPad, or iPhone/Touch), then click on that image, hold it and you will be asked to save it. That's it!

Pretty simple.

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