How to test an iPhone or iPad without having it physically

Being able to review some features before buying it and without having to go to a store will be very helpful for some people

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Imagen de archivo de un hombre parado frente a una pared con carcasas para iPhone en una tienda de Apple en Pekín, China. 17 julio 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Those who do not have the opportunity to go to a department store but want to buy an iPhone, can try it and get an idea of how it works with the help of a simulator on their Mac and convince themselves to make their purchase.

Before pointing out how you can interact with an iPhone without having it physically in your hand, it must be remembered that it is best to go directly to a store to ask the necessary tests and questions about the equipment.

Keep in mind that the simulator does not give a complete experience of the iPhone since it lacks some tools such as Face ID, the camera and you can't review colors, device sizes and other aspects.

After considering the above points, you can virtually explore an iPhone from a Mac with the Xcode application, available for free in the Apple App Store. Of course, the first step is to download the application on your Mac.

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Once installed, you must open and enter the administrator password to be able to download extra tools. Later, when you see the caption “Welcome to Xcode” on the screen, go to the Xcode menu and select Open Developer Tool > Simulator.

With the simulator open, you must tap the File > Open Simulator menu and finally select from the available options the operating system you want to test and finally the device. After you have followed all this, the home screen of the virtual iPhone will appear.

While it is open, you can explore the settings, applications, among other functions that may be limited. It is very useful for testing some things, however, as stated earlier, it does not provide the full experience of the physical device.

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Xcode is a tool designed for developers. With it, those who are working on an app can test and review that it is working properly or make changes to it before officially launching it. With such a luck, it is possible to try an iPhone or iPad.

Apple CEO Tim Cook issued an urgent warning against the forced opening of the iPhone's software system to applications from other sources.

Users of Apple's smartphone so far can only install their applications through the brand's official store, App Store, but this will change for a new regulation of the European Union (EU).

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This decision will provide an opportunity for malicious purposes to bypass Apple's comprehensive security measures, Cook warned during the recent Global Privacy Summit of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) held in the US capital, Washington.

Apple's CEO thus opposed European Union legislation on digital markets, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), on which negotiators from EU member states and the European Parliament reached an agreement at the end of March.

Cook stressed that Apple is in favour of data protection regulation and, in that regard, welcomed the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

“But we are deeply concerned about regulations that undermine privacy and security in the service of other goals,” he said.

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