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I need to test my site on an iOS device from a Mac.
Is there a desktop simulator available to do this?
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It's technically impossible as you can only simulate iOS on Mac hardware using macOS. As you can't run a macOS virtual machine on Windows you need to run macOS natively to test iOS apps. In the future, Apple might release a developer tool for this but for now, we can only rely on emulators to test iOS apps.
You can use the iOS simulator to do this. You need to enable "Developer Mode" on Safari (Preferences -> Advanced).
Then open the website you want to debug in the iOS simulator. Go back to safari and under Develop you will see the simulator and the tabs open on safari.
If you want to test an actual device, then just plug it into your computer and it should show there too.
That's how I do it.
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If you are on Mac OS X just use Simulator. I don't know if it is available by default but it looks like it is a part of the Xcode suite.
Anyway it is free and really useful, it allows you to simulate many popular Apple devices:
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