Statusbar Appearance
Customize the status bar appearance in the Simulator to 9:41.
RocketSim allows you to customize the status bar of the iOS Simulator.
9:41
You might or might not have noticed, but all of Apple’s devices have the status bar time set to 09:41. Here’s an image from the iPhone product page as an example:
That time used to be 9:42, matching the time of January 9th, 2007 when Steve Jobs announced the first first iPhone. Around 42 minutes into his keynote he mentioned:
“Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.”
Quite the historic sentence for us developers!
With RocketSim, you can apply the same appearance using the 09:41 button:
Configuring a custom status bar appearance
In some cases, you want to go more extreme. You can use the Custom status bar configuration sheet to create a status bar that matches your preference.
For example, a low battery level and 3G network connection: