This script removes and recreates all simulators in Xcode 7.

simulator_populator_xcode7

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'JSON'

device_types = JSON.parse `xcrun simctl list -j devicetypes`
runtimes = JSON.parse `xcrun simctl list -j runtimes`
devices = JSON.parse `xcrun simctl list -j devices`

devices['devices'].each do |runtime, runtime_devices|
  runtime_devices.each do |device|
    puts "Removing device #{device['name']} (#{device['udid']})"
    `xcrun simctl delete #{device['udid']}`
  end
end

device_types['devicetypes'].each do |device_type|
  runtimes['runtimes'].select{|runtime| runtime['availability'] == '(available)'}.each do |runtime|
    puts "Creating #{device_type['name']} with #{runtime['name']}"
    command = "xcrun simctl create '#{device_type['name']} #{runtime['name']}' #{device_type['identifier']} #{runtime['identifier']}"
    command_output = `#{command}`
    sleep 0.5
  end
end

If you're using a more recent version of Ruby, you may need to change require 'JSON' to require 'json'

Great, looks good! Just one strange thing - I get these errors:

Creating iPad Air 2 with iOS 9.2
Creating iPad Air 2 with tvOS 9.1
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError, code=157):
Incompatible device
Creating iPad Air 2 with watchOS 2.1
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError, code=157):
Incompatible device

for almost every device… I mean it doesn't seem to make sense to e.g. create "iPad Air 2 with tvOS 9.1", so I guess this is OK?
Maybe you can do some check in the inner loop when creating, to prevent these errors.

Thanks for the script, it helps a lot. But it seems that it creates all simulators for every version and device in xcode, even they are not downloaded yet.

If you are a CocoaPod writer, You might want to change line 19 from

command = "xcrun simctl create '#{device_type['name']} #{runtime['name']}' #{device_type['identifier']} #{runtime['identifier']}"

to

command = "xcrun simctl create '#{device_type['name']}' #{device_type['identifier']} #{runtime['identifier']}"

to omit generating simulator names like iPhone 4s iOS 9.3 and generate iPhone 4s instead, otherwise it causes: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#5320 (comment)