Clear iPhone simulator cookies

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sliver picture sliver · Dec 13, 2010 · Viewed 12k times · Source

I have an app that makes request to a REST service. Authentication is done using cookies. This already works.

What I have problems with is to test the case when the cookie is no longer valid and my code has to reauthenticate. To test this I have to wait until the cookie is invalid, which could take some time. To accelerate this I figured that if I delete the cookie it would have the same effect.

How to delete all cookies of an app on the iPhone simulator?

I already tried the following:

Deleting <app-dir>/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies doesn't work. It seems that my cookies are never written to this file.

Deleting all cookies in NSHTTPCookieStorage on app startup doesn't work either.

Answer

Fattie picture Fattie · Dec 13, 2010

YOU CAN RESET THE SIMULATOR

  • Launch the simulator.
  • Click the FIRST item on the "menu bar". It says "iOS Simulator"
  • A menu will appear. Go down three items to "Reset Contents and Settings"
  • Click "Reset" on the dialog which appears

iPhone Simulator Reset Cookies

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