open iOS iPad simulator with React Native by default

Question

By default, simulator is iPhone when you test React Native app. I know there is the --simulator flag :

react-native run-ios --simulator 'iPad 2'

Ok, but how to simulate ipad by default without this flag...

Thank you !

Answer 1

You could as well use "scripts" part of package.json:

"scripts": {
  "start": "node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start",
  "ipad": "react-native run-ios --simulator 'iPad Air'"
}

And then run: npm run ipad

Answer 2

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 X". If you wish to run your app on an iPad Pro (9.7-inch), run

react-native run-ios --simulator="iPad Pro (9.7-inch)".

You can check all your available devices

xcrun simctl list devices

from the console. Refer this: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/running-on-simulator-ios