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Take a screenshot or video by Xcode command-line
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For Xcode 8.2 or later
You can take videos and screenshots of Simulator using the xcrun Xcode command-line utility.
1. Run your app on the simulator.
2. Open Terminal.app
3. Run the command
- To take a screenshot, xcrun simctl io booted screenshot
- To take a video, xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo <filename>.<file extension>.
For example: xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo appvideo.mov
Press cntrl + c to stop recording the video.
The default location for the created file is the current directory.
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To take screenshot you have to also to pass a filename:

xcrun simctl io booted screenshot file.png

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