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While working on updating iOS screenshots for the App Store recently, I discovered that simctl status_bar is still broken. And unfortunately, I do not expect it to be fixed any time soon.
I few months ago I wrote a script to override status bar display settings in the iOS simulator using the new simctl status_bar feature in Xcode 11. This was great, but it still required that you manually run the script after launching simulators. This was not ideal, as Dave pointed out in iOS Dev Weekly when he challenged me to automate this anytime a simulator launches.
I recently wrote about overriding iOS simulator status bar display settings using simctl status_bar. In that post I provided some ways we can improve the tool, but I realized we can do even better.
With version 11 of Xcode, the IDE ships with a new feature in the simctl tool that can override status bar values for iOS simulators. This allows you to take better screenshots for the App Store without having to worrying about the time, battery level, etc. It is a great improvement, but there are some significant shortcomings. I’ve written a script to fix at least some of those.