I have simulators downloaded to my 14" M2 Pro Macbook Pro, and for some reason, I cannot see any simulators as an option in Safari's Responsive Design Mode.
Am I missing something obvious, or is my computer bugged?
Above is an image of the Responsive Design Mode showing no simulators. I would offer more screenshots to prove that I have simulators installed, but it won't let me upload any more photos for some reason.
I agree with every web developer in this forum. Bring back the Responsive Design Mode simulators. Why do Apple programmers try to simplify things by making them more difficult???
APPLE, please bring back the good. Developers are really disappointed.
Please notify me when you've added them back to Safari.
Thanks
I read all the posts about the missing responsive simulator mode. Does Chrome have one? If yes, I guess it's good bye Safari and hello Chrome.
I will check now, as it appears the missing responsive simulator mode complaints, which started 4 months ago have not been addressed by Apple. I just downloaded the updated Safari yesterday and now wish I hadn't.
Stupid me! I should know by now that Apple doesn't really give a crap about all the loyal Mac users that were their most important customers 28 years ago when the stock was trading at $5 and all the pundits said Apple was going bankrupt. This was before Steve Jobs came back and launched the iPod, and then the iPhone. We were the only real loyal building blocks that kept Apple alive on the way to becoming the Trillion dollar company they are now.
This is just horrible. I wonder if the removal of the simulators was to improve the performance of the browser. Who am I kidding, Apple just want us web developers to us some subset of Xcode for analytics, more disk space so we can get that sweet iCloud+, and lower the performance of my machine so I buy a new one. What a shame.
What's really horrible about this is that the MAIN THING I do in responsive mode is right click on an element and edit its html / css attributes to test changes. You can't do that in the simulator, making Safari unusable for me for mobile development.
SEEING what it looks like on a device is half the problem. THE OTHER HALF IS FIXING IT. And having to go back to the code, make a small change, wait for live reload is significantly more time consuming that editing it directly in the browser.
This was a beyond stupid change. I have no choice but to switch to Chrome, and I really, really dislike Chrome.
I can't even understand why remove some common used feature and don't listen to the developer needs... All Apple app need to be fixed, from Messages to iTunes due to the bug and lack of "intuitive" option. Apple was best on UI design, now is became more and Incomprehensible. The only interest is to add some new feature for general purpose to make the "wow" effect to impress investors and are forgetting that with the Mac most work with it and that we don't give a damn about these features
please, apple be smart and bring it back.
So much feedback to bring back Responsive Design Mode and yet we're ignored. That was a killer feature for development, I don' want to manually open a simulator and tab between it, how stupid.
This is really disappointing from Apple. Once again, apps are being "dumbed down" for everyday users and people who are power users/developers/etc. are being ignored. Safari is for me the best browser available but I guess I shall also be switching to firefox or chrome as I need good responsive design features. Apple, why are you doing this?