iPhone Simulator suddenly started running very slow

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Finglish picture Finglish · Mar 11, 2013 · Viewed 62.5k times · Source

I have been working on an app in iphone simulator for a number of weeks and it has been running well up until now, but all of a sudden has begun running very slow both when loading content and animations. I have not made any changes to my code since I last tested it successfully.

I tried restarting the simulator (multiple times) and removing the app and doing a completely clean rebuild, but no luck. I also checked my cpu usage through the monitor while the simulator is running and I am only using about 30% of my cpu and 40% of memory.

I fully understand that the simulator is never a quick as the device itself, but it seems strange that it has suddenly started running slow after such a long time, and by slow I mean less than a quarter of its original speed.

Answer

Metabble picture Metabble · Mar 11, 2013

In the iOS simulator, at the bar on the top, click on Debug → Toggle Slow Animations (or Slow Animations with Xcode 10+). Chances are you accidentally toggled it on.

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