how to pick the ios emulator from cordova / ionic command line

Question

in using the ionic emulate command line (i'm assuming it's the same as cordova phoengap) how do I pick the device - either ipad or iphone tall screen. It always defaults to the 3.5" screen.

Answer 1

With later versions of Ionic and Cordova one can use any of the following commands to list available emulations. The following commands have been tested with Ionic v3.20.0 and Cordova 8.0.0:

ionic cordova emulate --list # List any OS cordova run --list           # List any OS cordova run ios --list       # List specific OS 

And they yield something like:

Available ios virtual devices: iPhone-5s, 11.2 iPhone-6, 11.2 iPhone-6-Plus, 11.2 iPhone-6s, 11.2 iPhone-6s-Plus, 11.2 iPhone-7, 11.2 iPhone-7-Plus, 11.2 iPhone-8, 11.2 iPhone-8-Plus, 11.2 iPhone-SE, 11.2 iPhone-X, 11.2 iPad-Air, 11.2 iPad-Air-2, 11.2 iPad--5th-generation-, 11.2 iPad-Pro--9-7-inch-, 11.2 iPad-Pro, 11.2 iPad-Pro--12-9-inch---2nd-generation-, 11.2 iPad-Pro--10-5-inch-, 11.2 Apple-Watch-38mm, watchOS 4.2 Apple-Watch-42mm, watchOS 4.2 Apple-Watch-Series-2-38mm, watchOS 4.2 Apple-Watch-Series-2-42mm, watchOS 4.2 Apple-Watch-Series-3-38mm, watchOS 4.2 Apple-Watch-Series-3-42mm, watchOS 4.2 Apple-TV-1080p, tvOS 11.2 

To start the emulator with a specific OS use:

ionic cordova emulate ios --target "iPhone-X" 

See also: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-cli/#cordova-run-command

For an older installation of Ionic and Cordova I used the syntax mentioned in RipTheJacker's answer to select the device to emulate, ie:

ionic emulate ios --target="iPhone-4s" 

However, to find out what the available emulations are I run this:

ios-sim showdevicetypes 

This command will return a list, something like this:

iPhone-4s, 8.4 iPhone-5, 8.4 iPhone-5s, 8.4 iPhone-6-Plus, 8.4 iPhone-6, 8.4 iPad-2, 8.4 iPad-Retina, 8.4 iPad-Air, 8.4 Resizable-iPhone, 8.4 Resizable-iPad, 8.4