react-native/docs/RunningOnSimulatorIOS.md
Joel Marcey b1e49832ef Make prev links work in guides and APIs.
Summary:
We had rendering support for prev links, but we never had any previous links in our metadata. Only next links. This adds that support to both Guides and APIs.

**For guides**: `previous` is manually inserted into the metadata of the actual markdown file.
**For APIs/Components**: `previous` is established via code within `extractDocs.js`

> This isn't totally perfect. For example, the transition from the last guide to the first API/component has a next link from the guide, but not a previous link from the API since the way you get the previous links are different from guides and APIs. But this gets us really close.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/8754

Differential Revision: D3557972

Pulled By: hramos

fbshipit-source-id: e270bb51e7a4f59f61dad28ae0928d27d0af3d4a
2016-07-13 14:58:27 -07:00

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---
id: running-on-simulator-ios
title: Running On Simulator
layout: docs
category: Guides (iOS)
permalink: docs/running-on-simulator-ios.html
next: communication-ios
previous: running-on-device-ios
---
## Starting the simulator
Once you have your React Native project initialized, you can run `react-native run-ios` inside the newly created project directory. If everything is set up correctly, you should see your new app running in the iOS Simulator shortly.
## Specifying a device
You can specify the device the simulator should run with the `--simulator` flag, followed by the device name as a string. The default is `"iPhone 6"`. If you wish to run your app on an iPhone 4s, just run `react-native run-ios --simulator "iPhone 4s"`.
The device names correspond to the list of devices available in Xcode. You can check your available devices by running `xcrun simctl list devices` from the console.