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You can also buy into Corellium for this - I suppose the same idea but a closed "cloud" virtualization provider.


That sounded amazing until I clicked to the pricing and then to the FAQ about this "cores" concept

> newer devices, such as the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, require six cores

I'm not keeping up to date with apple phone numbers, but since OP speaks of 11 I take it that 8 must be at least a few years old. So "newer devices" here just means "any reasonable device".

6 cores is $295 a month on the cheapest plan. If you need it more than once every few years, it's cheaper to get a real phone used.

Thanks for the tip nevertheless! Can be useful in a pinch for sure :)


Corellium is more for low-level library and kernel debugging and situations where you need control over the boot process, the same kind of thing you'd use qemu for vs. the iOS Simulator in Docker-OSX or AWS Mac instances or whatever. For just running UI tests, AWS Mac instances or Appium/Browserstack/whatever is going to be way cheaper and more practical.

For low level debugging situations using real hardware is impractical or impossible as you need stolen debug probes (or to be part of the super exclusive Apple research program) and/or custom hardware.


Corellium is quite helpful even as an app developer when debugging things going on outside of your process.


Corellium can also bill you hourly at (IMO) much more affordable rates.




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