New: - CLI: rocketsim screenshot and rocketsim video record accept the mesh gradients from the background picker, for example --background aurora-drift, pastel-foam, lava-bloom, or indigo-nightfall. An unknown name lists the valid ones. - CLI: --metadata now renders the app icon, title, and subtitle badge, like the Post Editor does, from the most recent build on the Simulator. Use --metadata-title, --metadata-subtitle (an empty value hides the subtitle), and --metadata-app bundle-id to override the text or pick another installed app. The badge needs --ratio other than auto; RocketSim now says so, or that no app could be found, instead of leaving the badge out. - Captures: customize screenshot and recording file names with pills for capture type, device, app name, inches, and date, in Settings > Captures. (Thanks, K. Strasser!) Improved: - Onboarding: a refreshed first-run flow with an optional email step on Welcome, a short demo of the RocketSim CLI and Agent Skill, and a guided CLI and Agent Skill install step that only continues once an Agent Skill is installed. Onboarding no longer ends on an empty window after a permission or install step. - iPhone Duo: screenshots and recordings now show the device from straight on, like the Simulator and Device Hub, instead of from a slight angle. The fold still follows the hinge angle, from closed through book to open. Fixed: - Improved reliability of Developer folder access: Macs that can't remember the permission no longer show the permission screen at every launch (you can still grant it from Recent Builds), and diagnostics reports now explain why the permission couldn't be saved. (This is for you, J. Sabater!) - CLI: on iPhone Duo, taps, swipes, scrolls, and interact activate now reach the screen that is showing the app in the open and book poses, instead of silently doing nothing. Element positions and canvasSize match that screen's orientation, so toolbar items on the right are no longer hidden, and coordinates outside the screen now return a clear error.

New: - iPhone Duo: choose the Star White or Night Sky finish in the Device Bezel picker for screenshots and recordings. Screenshots can switch finish in the editor, and a recording keeps the finish it was captured in. CLI: --device-color star-white|night-sky with --bezel. Improved: - When RocketSim cannot find the selected Simulator for accessibility features, the Accessibility tabs now say so and suggest restarting the Simulator and RocketSim, instead of showing "SimulatorControl error 4". Diagnostics reports now also record what RocketSim's Simulator list contained at that moment, so we can find out why a Simulator is missing. (Thanks, C. Jacobsson!) - iPhone Duo: the 3D device in screenshots and recordings is now seen from a slight angle so the polished frame and side buttons show, with crisp metal highlights, a graphite Night Sky frame, and a dark glass bezel, instead of the flat head-on gray look. Fixed: - iPhone Duo: the hinge angle is tracked again after updating to Xcode 27.2 beta 3, so Device Hub folds, screenshots, and recordings follow the real fold angle instead of a flat device. RocketSim now reads the angle from the Simulator directly instead of through a devicectl command that newer CoreDevice versions removed. - The "disabled while Device Hub is in expanded mode" message on the Comparing and VoiceOver Navigator panels is white again in light mode instead of unreadable black. - The Magnifier in the Comparing window works for Simulators shown in Device Hub: it captures the simulator screen again, and its controls are enabled while Device Hub is in front. The coordinate label is also correct on secondary displays. - CLI: rocketsim screenshot --bezel device and rocketsim video record --bezel device now always apply a real-device bezel, including for iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPad Pro 13-inch (M5). Before, they silently returned a bare screen unless you had picked a bezel for that device in RocketSim first, and --frame-color had no effect. An explicit --bezel device now uses your saved bezel color or the first bundled one, and fails with an unsupported_target error for devices without a bundled bezel. (Thanks, P. van den Hamer!) - Exported recordings at 85 FPS or higher, such as 120 FPS iPhone Duo recordings, no longer open as slow motion in QuickTime Player and Photos. These exports are now saved as QuickTime movies, still named .mp4, that are marked to play at full speed. Trimming a recording and adding an end card keep this marking. - Fixed a crash when the Become Pro screen reacted to an email subscription finishing in the background. - Fixed RocketSim reporting a port conflict over and over when another process, such as a second RocketSim, already uses the Connect port. - Fixed repeated errors when RocketSim kept looking for a Simulator that no longer exists, for example after it was deleted or Xcode was updated. - Fixed errors reported when Xcode or its CoreSimulator was updated while RocketSim stayed open. Restart RocketSim to pick up the new Xcode. - Fixed a rare crash when RocketSim looked up a Simulator from two places at once, for example while changing the iPhone Duo fold pose during a recording. - iPhone Duo: screenshots and videos with a device bezel could come out much darker than the Simulator on macOS 27 beta. RocketSim now checks how the system renders the device and corrects the colors when needed. - iPhone Duo: a missing 3D model in the selected Xcode is no longer reported as an error, and a failed Duo conversion now shows why it failed and suggests recording again.

New: - Accessibility: added a Color Filter control with grayscale and red-green, green-red, and blue-yellow color blindness filters and an adjustable intensity, plus a new Liquid Glass section with the Tinted toggle and an Opacity slider, including a reset button. The color filters and the opacity slider require Xcode 27 or later. - Accessibility: added a StandBy toggle to show or hide StandBy on iPhone Simulators. Requires Xcode 27 or later. - Accessibility side window: added an Audit tab that scores the current screen, groups findings by rule, highlights affected elements, and copies a focused fix prompt for your agent. The score reflects how many rules pass, with Great, Good, and Needs work bands, and highlighted elements follow the Simulator screen as they move. A new heuristic rule, `non_descriptive_label`, flags labels that look like filenames or identifiers. Improved: - Renamed the Accessibility side window tabs to the more compact Toggles and VoiceOver labels. - The VoiceOver tab now lists only what VoiceOver users can reach. Controls inside a combined row are no longer listed or highlighted, and a new Actions rotor shows rows with custom actions. The Landmarks rotor is replaced by Containers. - Accessibility audit: `parent_child_conflict` accepts controls exposed as custom actions and reports controls that a combined row hides from VoiceOver. New heuristic rules `heading_trait_missing` and `selected_state_missing` flag section titles without the heading trait and tab or segmented controls without a selected state. Rules about VoiceOver output now skip controls VoiceOver can't reach, while touch target and contrast rules still check them. - CLI: `elements --agent` output adds `!actions|id|...` rows for elements that have custom actions. Every element, including the controls inside a combined row, stays tappable by id. - The Accessibility side window now follows changes you make in the Simulator itself, such as switching Dark Mode or Increase Contrast, without polling. Requires Xcode 27 or later. - Improved reliability of the Accessibility side window: Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, and the accessibility toggles now apply consistently, including on the iOS 27 Simulator. Bold Text, On/Off Labels, Inverted Colors, and Differentiate w/o Color are hidden on iOS 27 Simulators for now, and Button Shapes is now called Show Borders to match iOS. Fixed: - CLI: commands that take `--udid` (such as `screen`, `elements`, `interact`, `screenshot`, and `duo`) now find a Simulator that was cloned and booted with `xcrun simctl`, without opening it in Simulator.app. - Fixed a rare crash when several CLI commands or overlays read accessibility information from multiple Simulators at the same time, for example while running parallel `rocketsim elements` or `rocketsim wait` commands. - iPad Pro and iPad mini in Device Hub no longer report that Device Hub is in expanded mode, so Comparing, Touches, and VoiceOver Navigator work again.

New: - Browser Preview can be opened from another Mac on the same network or a Tailscale tailnet with `rocketsim preview --lan`. - CLI: added `rocketsim accessibility-audit` to return structured accessibility findings for the visible Simulator screen, including labels, traits, hit regions, element structure, and optional heuristic contrast checks. - Added real-device bezels for iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and folded and unfolded iPhone Duo. - Added iPhone Duo capture support: screenshots and recordings capture both displays and the live hinge angle, and render the fold pose through Apple's 3D folding model in the app, editor, previews, and thumbnails. Renders follow the Simulator orientation with upright interface content, support transparent or custom backgrounds, and use an automatic ratio that stays compact while folded and expands when the device unfolds. - CLI: iPhone Duo support. `screenshot` and `video record` render the fold pose for every styled bezel, including the Duo-only `--bezel device3d`. `duo pose` controls the simulator hinge directly (without Device Hub or macOS Accessibility permission), and `duo hinge` reports the hinge state and angle. Plain Duo screenshots capture the display that shows the interface (outer while closed, inner while open) in that display's orientation. - Rotating an iPhone, iPad, or iPhone Duo Simulator while recording is now preserved and smoothly animated in editor previews, thumbnails, and exported videos. Improved: - Browser Preview uses about 75% less CPU per streamed Simulator. Frames are now JPEG-encoded by the Mac's hardware video encoder and capped at 30 fps, and streams send about 80% less data to each browser. - Browser Preview lowers its frame rate to 15 fps while any Simulator is recording, and recordings get priority when your Mac is busy, so previews never slow down a recording. - Previews that no browser is watching, including the ones CLI agent commands start automatically, no longer stream or encode Simulator frames, so they leave RocketSim idle. - Browser Preview skips accessibility refreshes while the screen is unchanged or the Simulator is recording. - Recordings no longer contain bursts of repeated frames after a brief system stall. Fixed: - Network Monitor and RocketSim Connect no longer stay disconnected on Xcode 27 and macOS 27. If you installed the hook through Terminal, run the copied setup command again from Settings > Connect. (Thanks, L. Hurtado!) - CLI: installing the `rocketsim` command into `~/.local/bin` no longer fails with "The selected folder doesn't appear to be on your PATH", including on machines where the user isn't your main account (for example a CI user). (Thanks, G. Ambrozio!) - Starting a Browser Preview no longer freezes RocketSim's interface for up to a second. - CLI: `rocketsim video record` no longer fails for recordings larger than 10 MB (about 20 seconds at 60 fps). Large results are now handed over through a temporary file. - Browser Preview sessions now stop when their Simulator is deleted. - CLI: `rocketsim` no longer exits silently with signal 133/134 when invoked from Codex's default sandboxed shell. The installed launcher now returns an actionable `sandbox_unavailable` response, while the agent skill requests the required escalation up front. Existing CLI symlinks installed through RocketSim migrate automatically. (Thanks, U. Di Profio!) - Fixed individual rulers that could no longer be removed by dragging them outside the horizontal or vertical ruler strip. (Thanks, A. Hershberger!)

New: - Added RocketSim Connect settings with connection status, LLDB setup diagnostics, manual setup commands, and an option to remove the Xcode debugger integration. - Simulator actions that Xcode 27's Device Hub dropped are back: shake the device, toggle light/dark appearance, and simulate a memory warning. Find them in the menu bar's new Simulator submenu and in the Compare tab's six-button panel alongside Grid, Rulers, and Slow Animations. - Shut down the active Simulator or every other booted Simulator from the Simulator submenu to reclaim the memory Device Hub keeps in use. - All Simulator actions have assignable shortcuts under Settings > Shortcuts, so you can restore Simulator.app bindings like ⇧⌘A for appearance. - Drag & drop imports are back for Xcode 27's Device Hub: drop `.apns` push payloads, root certificates, photos, videos, `.app` bundles, or links onto RocketSim's side window to import them into the active Simulator. The window turns into a dashed drop target while you drag, and a notification confirms what was imported. Fixed: - Keyboard shortcuts now work while Xcode 27's Device Hub is the frontmost app; previously they only activated for Simulator.app, so toggles like slow animations silently did nothing. - Unrelated macOS Services no longer appear in RocketSim's app menu or block assigning their key combinations to RocketSim shortcuts. - CLI agent flows are more reliable and token-efficient: batched interaction steps accept direct action aliases, fixed-duration waits stay inside `rocketsim do`, screen guards work with coordinate actions, duplicate labels support `--index`, large interaction deltas are compacted, ambiguous multi-Simulator targeting no longer guesses, and video recordings finalize on termination signals or after `--duration`. - Improved LLDB hook script by removing redundant queries. - Fixed the side window not appearing for Device Hub Simulators whose names include a hyphenated number (for example `17 Pro Max - 27`). (Thanks, M. Martino!) - Direct-download builds once again embed Sparkle.framework, preventing a launch crash after installing or updating RocketSim. - Fixed touch indicators appearing upside down in landscape recordings or vertically offset in recordings with an off-center device frame. (Thanks, S. Gardner and H. v.d. Ploeg!)

Fixed: - CLI: `rocketsim` commands now work for macOS usernames longer than 22 characters, which previously pushed the IPC socket path past the system limit and made every command fail. - RocketSim no longer crashes on launch when its shared app group container is unavailable; it now keeps running with the CLI reported as unavailable. - Simulator command failures now report their exit status and bounded, redacted error details, so repeated `simctl` problems can be diagnosed instead of all looking alike. - Accessibility elements now load successfully for iOS 27 Simulators when using Xcode 27 RC.

New: - Added support for the latest iPhone 18 Pro Simulators. - Browser Preview (beta): stream and interact with a booted Simulator from your browser via the new `rocketsim preview` CLI command, including an AI-native visual review workflow. - Capture setting: open editor directly after recording a video to skip the initial conversion. (Thanks, Mustafa!) - Added iPad Pro M5 device bezels. Improved: - Significantly reduced CPU usage while Simulators are running: recent-build scans are now debounced, scoped to the affected Simulator, and reuse cached container and DerivedData lookups instead of rescanning everything on every file change. - Reduced CPU usage during agent (CLI) sessions: the annotated snapshot command reuses fresh accessibility snapshots, and the Accessibility overlay no longer runs its own refresh cadence while agent commands already deliver fresh data. - CLI: compact `nav`/`act` snapshots omit keyboard keys, off-canvas elements, and duplicate text composites, reducing agent token usage. - CLI: agent commands now automatically keep a live browser preview available and include its URL in the `rs/1` response context. Fixed: - Fixed idle browser preview sessions continuously encoding Simulator frames and consuming CPU when no browser was connected. - Fixed the physical devices window becoming too narrow by enforcing a minimum width of 300. - Fixed recent build names remaining dark while highlighted in the menu bar menu. (Thanks, E. Sanchez!) - CLI: simulator commands now resolve the single booted Simulator when no Simulator window is focused (e.g. headless `simctl boot`), suggesting `--udid` when several are booted. - CLI: `interact` now reports `screen_changed` from actively refreshed snapshots, so change detection reflects the post-interaction screen. - CLI: `wait keyboard` accepts `shown` as an alias for `visible`. - CLI: selectors matching one actionable element wrapped in non-actionable containers resolve automatically instead of returning `multiple_matches`. - CLI: stale Simulator services are refreshed once before returning typed Simulator or accessibility recovery errors instead of a generic `execution_failed`. - Physical-device version mismatch errors now explain how to restore compatible Xcode and device support. - Recovered RocketSim Connect app relaunches are no longer counted as connection failures.

Improved: - LLDB RocketSimConnect improved for slow launches that occasionally happen on busy machines. Fixed: - Fixed RocketSim onboarding windows appearing while app-hosted tests run in the background. - Fixed the Screen Recording permission alert repeatedly appearing after opening System Settings or denying access. (Thanks, E. Sanchez!) - Fixed RocketSim occasionally asking you to select Xcode again after access had already been granted. (Thanks, H. v.d. Ploeg) - Fixed the side window not appearing for Simulators booted in Xcode's Device Hub after RocketSim launched. (Thanks, E. Sanchez and S. Figlie!)

New: - Added iPad A16 device bezels (Thanks, H. v.d. Ploeg!) - Physical-device previews now support Simulator’s Command-1/2/3/4 viewing modes: Physical Size, Point Accurate, Pixel Accurate, and Fit Screen. - The side window now appears for Simulators in Xcode’s Device Hub, including expanded mode. Fixed: - Prevented crashes in floating capture thumbnails during recording export. - Prevented side-window crashes caused by invalid or stale frames during spring animations. - Improved Magnifier stability and performance during rapid movement and zooming. - Stopped the optional RocketSim Connect setup prompt from reappearing after dismissal. - Corrected the Simulator side window when switching Spaces. - Restored launch arguments, including locale overrides, for physical-device apps. - Corrected captures, recordings, and touch indicators after Simulator rotation. - Prevented deep links and push notifications from switching Device Hub to Simulator.app. - Prevented occasional deadlocks when relaunching apps with a locale or time zone. - Prevented RocketSim Connect from leaving app launches paused at `UIApplicationMain` after the debugger briefly auto-resumed during setup. - Prevented a crash when RocketSim became active after closing the sales window. - Made `rocketsim interact tap x y` send precise HID touches instead of activating an enclosing accessibility element. Use `interact activate` for accessibility activation. (Thanks, S. Gardner!) - Corrected landscape coordinates for agent taps, swipes, and gestures so they land where `elements` reports them. (Thanks, S. Gardner!) - Corrected `rocketsim screenshot` and `snapshot` orientation on rotated Simulators. PNGs now match the orientation and coordinate space reported by `elements`. (Thanks, S. Gardner!) - Included accessibility elements as small as 1×1 points in `rocketsim elements`. Zero-size elements with accessibility content are now reported under `zero_size_elements_omitted`. (Thanks, S. Gardner!) - Kept sibling accessibility elements with identical text separate in `rocketsim elements`. (Thanks, S. Gardner!) - Reported malformed Simulator accessibility responses as unavailable instead of crashing RocketSim. - Prevented disconnected CLI sockets from terminating RocketSim while writing a response. - Diagnostics now show the latest RocketSim Connect LLDB injection result and any recovery paths used. - Agent `elements` output now includes each element’s `accessibilityIdentifier` in debug mode and uses it for identity, preventing same-labeled elements from colliding in `interact` deltas. (Thanks, S. Gardner!) - Restored Build Insights after license validation refreshes stale cached metadata. - Replaced a misleading user-directory warning with the actual Xcode selection problem. (Thanks, H. v.d. Ploeg!) - Restored the Subscribe button when StoreKit confirmation was not anchored to the originating RocketSim window.

New: - Touch pointer size can now be adjusted from Captures settings. (Thanks, J. Williams!) Fixed: - Fixed truncated action button labels on the Unlock Pro Recordings floating thumbnail by wrapping the dual CTAs onto two lines. - Fixed touch strokes appearing inconsistently between capture previews and exported recordings. (Thanks, J. Williams!) - Fixed an empty black circle appearing on the side window's More button. (Thanks, H. v.d. Ploeg!) - Fixed App Store Connect rejecting App Previews exported with the "App Store Connect" option enabled. Those recordings were encoded as HEVC and could keep the recording's frame rate, while App Store Connect only accepts H.264 at up to 30 FPS. (Thanks, L. Mikusiak!) - Fixed deeply nested VoiceOver Overlay elements consuming too much horizontal space by capping their indentation. - Fixed touch indicators following mouse movement after releasing a touch in recordings without Touch Attention enabled. (Thanks, J. Scalo!) - Fixed touch indicators being absent from recordings of Simulators hosted in Xcode's Device Hub. - Fixed touch indicators drifting out of sync with the recording when video stream startup was slow. Touch timestamps are now anchored to the video's own timeline. - Fixed RocketSim Connect's LLDB hook injecting into app-hosted test runs, which could pause snapshot tests at `UIApplicationMain` and surface duplicate Objective-C class warnings. Test hosts are now excluded by detecting loaded XCTest runtime modules. (Thanks, M. Caron!) - Fixed a race in RocketSim Connect's LLDB hook that could leave app launches paused at `UIApplicationMain` until manually continued, with Connect never attaching. The loader now captures the launch thread identity before resuming and safely recovers its own stops without ever touching user breakpoints or pauses. (Thanks, M. Heiberg and R. Mirzoyan!) - Fixed RocketSim Connect's LLDB hook suspending background threads while running to `UIApplicationMain`, which could permanently deadlock apps that wait on background work during startup (for example analytics SDK or telephony setup). The run-to-main plan now keeps all threads running.

New: - RocketSim Connect onboarding validation can now be skipped. - App Store Connect-optimized recordings now show a warning when their duration falls outside the accepted 15–30 second App Preview range. - The `rocketsim` CLI now resolves simulators through Device Hub, so agent commands and `rocketsim doctor` find booted Simulators regardless of whether they run in Simulator.app or Xcode's Device Hub. - RocketSimConnect now loads efficiently via a LLDB init file. Optimized for both Xcode 26 and 27. - RocketSimConnect initialization is faster and more optimized. Fixed: - Fixed RocketSim keeping macOS capture and Mic Mode indicators active while Simulator Camera was idle. (Thanks, E. Sanchez!) - Fixed `rocketsim network` commands hanging indefinitely when the Network Extension was not yet approved or responding. They now fail fast with a clear error telling agents whether user approval or a retry is needed. - Fixed CLI network failures corrupting the Networking window's status indicator. - Fixed `rocketsim wait` reporting a misleading timeout when the accessibility backend itself was failing. The underlying error is now surfaced so agents can recover instead of retrying a wait that can never succeed. - Fixed agent commands hanging or crashing against Xcode 27 Simulators. Accessibility limitations of the iOS 27 runtime are now reported as clear, immediate errors, while taps, hardware buttons, and screenshots keep working. - Fixed `rocketsim interact biometric` not completing Face ID match and non-match requests. - Fixed coordinate-only agent batches requiring an accessibility snapshot, allowing them to keep working when accessibility data is unavailable. - Fixed long recent deeplink arguments being truncated. Recent arguments now preserve their full text, wrap into multiple rows, and keep up to six entries in a vertically scrollable history. - Fixed long clipboard deeplinks being truncated at the end, so both their menu item and history entry preserve the URL's beginning and end.

Fixed: - Fixed RocketSim crashing while agent commands read accessibility elements from Xcode 27 Simulators, restoring agent functionality for affected booted Simulators. (Thanks, Skwiggs & S. Houtzager!)

**New:** - Recent Builds now supports launching, terminating, relaunching, and uninstalling apps on physical devices connected over USB. - Deeplinks and universal links can now be tested directly in apps installed on physical devices connected over USB. - Location actions now work on physical devices connected over USB, including fixed coordinates, saved routes, and built-in scenarios. - Apps on physical devices connected over USB can now be relaunched with a selected locale. **Fixed:** - Fixed RocketSim Connect's LLDB support for Xcode 27, restoring automatic network monitoring setup. - Fixed the onboarding window becoming extremely tall on macOS Tahoe, which could place its controls beyond the visible screen. (Thanks, B. Cerceo!) - Fixed the RocketSim app icon showing up in the Dock after a recording or screenshot thumbnail appeared, and staying visible after the thumbnail was dismissed. (Thanks, M. Townsend!) - Fixed screenshots and video captures using an oversized corner radius for iPad device bezels. (Reported by C. Chlach) - Fixed a crash when CoreSimulator temporarily returned incomplete Simulator runtime or device metadata. (Thanks, P. vd Hamer!) - Fixed captures appearing black when switching from a device bezel to the Simulator bezel in the post-capture editor. (Thanks, P. Friese!)

New: - The `rocketsim` CLI can now enable Airplane Mode and Network Speed Control profiles like 3G and 100% loss, allowing agents to test offline and poor-network app handling. (Thanks, N. Kurpas!) - The `rocketsim` CLI can now activate accessibility-only elements using `interact activate`, enabling agents to open hidden debug menus and controls that do not respond to coordinate taps. (Thanks, J. Boulter!) - The `rocketsim` CLI now supports two-finger tap and long-press gestures using `--touches` / `--number-of-touches`, making it possible to automate multi-touch simulator interactions. (Thanks, J. Boulter!) - RocketSim Connect installation is now done automatically via LLDB init file. - RocketSim's main window can now be opened from the status bar menu. Fixed: - Fixed the macOS Screen Recording permission dialog showing multiple times at launch when access was not yet determined. The system prompt now only appears after pressing the "Open System Preferences" button on the permission onboarding screen. - Fixed the macOS Screen Recording permission dialog reappearing on the first launch after a previously granted permission was revoked or reset. - Fixed copying recordings and screenshots from the floating thumbnail after "Save on copy" was enabled. RocketSim now publishes a staged clipboard file with the saved capture name instead of a temporary file that is cleaned up immediately after copying. (Thanks, A. Plotnikov!) - Fixed copied captures placing only a display name on the clipboard in some cases, ensuring the actual file URL is available for pasting. - Fixed VoiceOver overlay navigation activation to use accessibility activation before falling back to coordinate taps, so hidden accessibility-only elements can be opened with Enter or double-click in navigation mode. (Thanks, J. Boulter!) - Fixed a crash in accessibility element recovery by serializing point lookups that can otherwise tear down shared AXP translation objects concurrently. - Fixed RocketSim no longer reappearing next to the Simulator after macOS temporarily reports the Simulator window as too small during Stage Manager switches. (Thanks, K. Jężak!) - Fixed duplicate Pulse class warnings when apps link Pulse directly by namespacing RocketSim's embedded copy of Pulse. - Fixed microphone recording cleanup when a recording is stopped while it is still launching, preventing RocketSim from keeping the macOS microphone indicator active after cancellation. (Thanks, P. Friese!) - Fixed physical-device recordings not offering recent app metadata choices in the capture editor when no Simulator-specific metadata could be resolved. (Thanks, P. Piella!) - Fixed the Recent Builds side panel not showing builds when simulators run in Device Hub instead of Simulator.app. (Thanks, J. Sherlock!)

Improved: - Unknown Simulators are now handled better with an option to report an issue. Fixed: - Captures clipping shadow or showing wrong corner radius in videos. (Thanks, C. Swapp!) - CLI now supports screenshots & videos with bezels, custom backgrounds, ratios, and more. - `AVCaptureSessionDidStartRunning` is now posted by Simulator Camera sessions. (Thanks, A. Singh!) - Fixed Simulator Camera crashes when apps configure exposure or observe still-image stabilization state. (Thanks, A. Daniel and F. Byaruhanga!) - Fixed Simulator Camera preview-layer crashes caused by UIKit sending view-environment selectors to RocketSim's preview store. (Thanks, M. Richman!) - Flutter's official camera plugin can now recreate RocketSim mock cameras by unique ID. (Thanks, Baptiste DUPUCH!) - Added an environment variable and a `None` camera option to make Simulator Camera behave as unavailable when apps need their default no-camera fallback. (Thanks, I. Orlov and Stéphane!) - Simulator Camera sample buffers now respect requested pixel formats and video orientation when delivering frames to apps. (Thanks, A. Singh!) - Fixed RocketSim Connect showing stale or empty network data after relaunching your app. The Network Monitor now follows the latest live run instead of staying on a previously selected or empty session, unless you deliberately pin an older session. Connect diagnostics reports also now record connection reset reasons and ECONNRESET details for faster support triage. (Thanks, Luis Canto Hurtado!)

Added support for the latest Xcode and Device Hub.

New: - Recordings with Simulator and microphone audio now export as a single playback-compatible audio track by default, with a new setting to keep separate tracks for post-production. (Thanks, P. Friese!) - Connected physical devices can now be opened manually from the new status bar Connected Devices menu, with a new setting to keep device detection enabled without automatically opening preview windows. (Thanks, Matthew Loewen!) Fixed: - Fixed the RocketSim Pro paywall showing free-trial copy for discounted yearly purchases that charge immediately. (Thanks, Damir Štuhec!) - Fixed a stuck Simulator recording that could only be ended by quitting RocketSim: rapidly tapping the stop button while a long recording was finalizing used to spawn parallel stop pipelines, growing memory to over 1 GB and never releasing the recorder. Stops are now idempotent. (Thanks, D. Skwiggs!) - Fixed exported videos showing a device bezel shadow that could slowly grow in some players by clearing reused compositor buffers before drawing each frame. (Thanks, C. Swapp!)

New: - Agent interactions now support portrait-upside-down Simulator orientation, keeping taps, gestures, and annotated snapshots aligned for CLI-driven workflows. (Thanks, P. Ruzman!) - The `rocketsim` CLI can now answer Simulator Face ID prompts using `interact biometric match` or `nomatch`. (Thanks, P. Ruzman!) Fixed: - Agentic Coding in Xcode Agent Skill installation now also supports Xcode's Codex assistant. - Fixed a crash when starting Simulator recordings with microphone capture while the selected input device exposes an unsupported multi-channel audio format. RocketSim now records microphones directly through AVFoundation so multi-channel USB interfaces keep working. (Thanks, Sebastian and S. Grunewald!)

New: - Microphone recording now works for physical devices. - Agent Skill installation now includes an explicit Agentic Coding in Xcode option for Xcode's built-in coding assistant. (Thanks, C. Pothaar) - Location app actions now support long-pressing the map to use selected coordinates as waypoints, with a Follow roads toggle for direct off-road routes. (Thanks, D. Yoo!) Fixed: - Fixed Physical Devices live previews appearing too bright by rendering captured frames through a Metal/Core Image SDR pipeline. (Thanks, T. Hensel!) - Fixed Simulator recordings failing after Xcode was updated while RocketSim kept running by refreshing stale Simulator control state and retrying once. (Thanks, H. van der Ploeg!) - Fixed RocketSim agent CLI setup guidance so agents recover when their shell `PATH` cannot see an already-installed `rocketsim` command. Diagnostics reports now include Command Line Tool install state for faster support triage. (Thanks, J. Sherlock!) - Fixed `rocketsim doctor` reporting `cli_on_path` failures or warnings even when the CLI was correctly installed and on PATH. The check now uses the CLI's own resolved executable path, so installs in PATH locations that aren't visible to the sandboxed RocketSim.app (such as `/usr/local/bin`) report correctly, including when launched as a bare `rocketsim` command. (Thanks, D. Bertrand!) - Fixed Command Line Tool installation rejecting `~/.local/bin` even when that folder is on the user's terminal `PATH`. (Thanks, Daniel Yoo!)

New: - The side window now provides visual feedback for Simulator App audio and microphone audio. - Video editor now shows a waveform if audio was recorded. - Trim handle now shows a trim mouse cursor on hover. - User Defaults Editor now contains a manual refresh button. (Thanks, O. Okbay) - Added zoomed annotated snapshots to the `rocketsim` CLI using element IDs, labels, types, or values, making visual target-finding easier for agents. - Discarding a capture now asks for confirmation and moves files to the Trash, making accidental deletes recoverable. Improved: - Agent CLI workflows now require fewer repeated approvals and support smarter refreshes and faster wait polling. - RocketSim agent guidance now reserves `rocketsim doctor` for setup troubleshooting, and doctor reports the sandbox accessibility fallback as a passing fetch route. - Video editor previews now play recorded audio alongside the waveform. - Snapshot zooming now uses device-aware scale detection and clearer error reasons for offscreen or zero-area elements. Fixed: - Capture editor inspector settings are now remembered across captures and stay in sync with the floating capture controls. (Thanks, E. Sanchez!) - Optimized window server usage, reducing CPU consumption. (Thanks, S. Vieira) - Fixed the macOS menu bar microphone indicator staying lit after stopping a Simulator recording with the microphone enabled. - The Command Line Tool install confirmation sheet now renders correctly in dark mode. (Thanks, H. v.d. Ploeg & L. Mehlig!) - Video editor previews now appear immediately while fallback frames, seeking, and trim thumbnails continue loading in the background. (Thanks, E. Sanchez!) - Fixed trim selections not being applied when exporting MP4 or GIF recordings. - Fixed physical-device side windows disappearing after switching away from RocketSim and back. - Fixed physical-device streaming matching for USB devices whose capture identifiers do not match their UDIDs. - Fixed landscape support for physical device streaming windows. - Fixed duplicate Simulator names resolving to the wrong window by using runtime suffixes in window titles. - Fixed crash when getting an appIcon with iOS 26 Simulator (Thanks, jaecheoljung)

New: - RocketSim now supports connected physical iOS devices: USB-connected iPhones appear in live preview windows with side-window controls, screenshots, disconnect-safe video recording with audio, comparing overlays, and device-specific window positioning. - Added Physical Devices settings for USB support, network-detected devices, and ignored devices, including an in-window option to hide a device you do not want RocketSim to manage. - Added a dedicated `CLI & Agent` settings page with installers for the bundled `rocketsim` command line tool and agent skill. The CLI installs as a symlink into a folder you pick on your PATH, so App Store updates keep it up to date automatically. - Added `rocketsim doctor` to verify the CLI install, RocketSim app discovery, IPC reachability, simulator state, AX permission, and snapshot-store readiness before you hand control to an agent. - Added `rocketsim screenshot` as a plain PNG fallback command for agents and automations that need visual context. Improved: - VoiceOver overlay is now faster and more complete, including elements like tab bars and nav bars. CLI performance improved by 25x. - Physical device windows are more reliable and polished, with dark preview chrome, full-bleed device bezels, corner resizing, restored window positions, cleaner USB discovery, and improved reconnect behavior. - The agent protocol now emits one consistent `rs/1` JSON envelope with typed errors across `elements`, `screen`, `interact`, `wait`, `do`, `snapshot`, and `doctor`, making it easier for external agent skills and automations to consume reliably. - Agent interactions are now more robust: `interact` settles against fresh snapshots, stale `--screen` hashes fail fast, screen-change waits advance to fresh snapshots, coordinate swipes route through real HID gestures, and `interact scroll` can resolve the nearest scrollable ancestor from a visible child element. - Agent snapshots now surface sparse web content, perception recovery hints, and ambiguity hints for duplicate labels so agents can recover with visual fallback when accessibility data is incomplete. Fixed: - Fixed RocketSim Connect payload handling running on the main thread, reducing profiling noise and avoiding unnecessary main-thread compression work in linked apps. (Thanks, K. Titov!) - App Actions add/edit sheets now always render in dark mode, matching the rest of RocketSim's floating UI. (Thanks, L. Tuss!) - App Actions configurations shared via Git no longer regenerate identifiers on every launch, eliminating noisy diffs across team members and making the JSON file safe to commit. Locations are now imported from the file as well. (Thanks, N. Yun!) - Network Monitoring now reconnects reliably after rerunning a simulator app without needing to restart RocketSim. (Thanks, Tonni Hyldgaard!) - Fixed recordings automatically exporting visible touch indicators even when touches were turned off, while still keeping captured touches available in the post editor for retrospective enabling. (Thanks, G. Gerber!) - Fixed automatic breakpoint installation for RocketSim Connect. (Thanks, L. Hurtado!) - Fixed the Voice Over overlay getting stuck without elements when the active Simulator window was temporarily unavailable. (Thanks, A. Mohamad!) - Fixed device bezels for iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus rounding the screen content with the wrong radius, which left a transparent halo at the corners.

New: - Deeplinks can now prompt for a single argument by using {ARGUMENT} in the URL, including quick relaunch pills for your most recently used values. (Thanks, H. v.d. Ploeg!) - Holding `Cmd` over the floating side window now swaps the more button for a quick minimize button, making it faster to get RocketSim out of the way. (Thanks, T. MacDonald!) - The Network Monitor now shows connected app logs alongside network requests, making it easier to correlate app activity with request traffic. - Recordings now show both touch points during Option-key pinch and rotate gestures, matching the Simulator preview more closely. (Thanks, R. Labs and E. Sanchez!) - The floating thumbnail has become a little bit bigger for a better presence on larger screens. Fixed: - Fixed a crash that could happen while exporting MP4 and GIF recordings on macOS 15. (Thanks, Bacil!) - Fixed app group plist discovery for simulator apps so Recent Builds and User Defaults lists now show app group preferences correctly. (Thanks, Daij-Djan!)

New: - Added a `Reset Keychain` quick action to the Recent Builds side window so you can clear a Simulator app's keychain without leaving RocketSim. Improved: - Build Insights now avoids unnecessary Core Data work and log reloads, improving responsiveness and reducing background churn. - App Actions settings now reuse in-memory data instead of issuing extra fetches, making the settings screen more efficient. - RocketSim Connect session lookups now happen off the main context during reconnect and new-run detection, reducing UI blocking. Fixed: - Fixed landscape MP4 recordings being generated incorrectly when using landscape orientation with device bezels. (Thanks, A. Machen!)

Improved: - Capturing screenshots performance is now faster Fixed: - Fixed a small issue happening on launch. - Fixed a crash that could happen while exporting transparent videos. (Thanks, D. Kroese!) - Fixed a crash that could happen while capturing screenshots repeatedly after each other. (Thanks, P. Bohomolnyi, A. Vivo!) - Screenshots and videos now use the active simulator when multiple Simulator windows are open. (Thanks, M. Loewen!) - Grammar mistake in Diagnostics alert (Thanks, D. Kroese!) - Orange dot in status bar won't show up when general settings aren't changed (Thanks, A. Hershberger!) - Changing the output ratio in the capture editor now updates the bezel picker to reflect the required device bezel. (Thanks, Pol!) - Camera permission is no longer requested on launch or repeated from simulator-driven camera activity. RocketSim now only asks after pressing `Authorize Camera Access`. (Thanks, R. van Weersel, P. Tremadio, Chuck!) - Spacebar now plays and pauses video previews in the post editor. (Thanks, Pol!)

Improved: - Capturing screenshots performance is now faster Fixed: - Fixed a crash that could happen while exporting transparent videos. (Thanks, D. Kroese!) - Fixed a crash that could happen while capturing screenshots repeatedly after each other. (Thanks, P. Bohomolnyi, A. Vivo!) - Screenshots and videos now use the active simulator when multiple Simulator windows are open. (Thanks, M. Loewen!) - Grammar mistake in Diagnostics alert (Thanks, D. Kroese!) - Orange dot in status bar won't show up when general settings aren't changed (Thanks, A. Hershberger!) - Changing the output ratio in the capture editor now updates the bezel picker to reflect the required device bezel. (Thanks, Pol!) - Camera permission is no longer requested on launch or repeated from simulator-driven camera activity. RocketSim now only asks after pressing `Authorize Camera Access`. (Thanks, R. van Weersel, P. Tremadio, Chuck!) - Spacebar now plays and pauses video previews in the post editor. (Thanks, Pol!)