Reset NSUserDefaults / SharedPreferences

[cosminstirbu]

Hello,

Is there a way to clear NSUserDefaults / SharedPreferences?
I know that you can call resetApp() but that restarts the simulator itself (at least on iOS) and that takes a long time.

I am more interested in closing the application and clearing the NSUserDefaults / SharedPreferences before each test in order to make them run faster rather than calling resetApp()

Thank you.

[cosminstirbu]

For anyone else still looking for a solution to this, I posted a solution as an answer to this question:

Retrieve the iOS Simulator UDID

Thanks for the help. What I’ve ended up doing though is writing the following Java piece of code that clears the NSUserDefaults for all installed simulators (since I don’t run any tests in parallel on multiple simulators): private void clearIosUserDefaults() { try { String user = System.getenv("USER"); String removeUserDefaultsCommand = "find /Users/" + user + "/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/ -path \"*/Preferences/com.mycompany.myapp.plist*\" -exec rm -rf {} \\;";…