Does anybody know why home button is missing for iPad simulator only?
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Its a simple redesign to make more space for the simulator screen. You can trigger the home button from the menu Hardware > Home Or using the shortcut: ⇧⌘H.
I don't think this is an enhancement at all. This is by far a notorious bug and a bad one. I know that home button action can be reproduced by cmd-H or its double click by doing cmd-H twice, though it could activate the slow motion animations too (annoying!). My point here is that whenever you run the simulator and start testing doing rotations (cmd-arrows), at one point you won't be able to tell if iPad orientation is to the right or to the left!... there's no visual clue whatsoever! Bad Apple!, bad Apple!
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