{
  "id": 7882614,
  "title": "How I Tested Amana Across Locations in the iOS Simulator",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/how-i-tested-amana-across-locations-in-the-ios-simulator",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T21:00:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/how-i-tested-amana-across-locations-in-the-ios-simulator?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "At 10 AM in Tokyo, on a day with 94% cloud cover, the author needed their app's paywall to display a clear sunset. Instead of waiting, they used a single command to move their iOS Simulator to Albuquerque, where the time was 7 PM, and the sky was clear. They then took a screenshot in 22 seconds. This method was also applied to App Store screenshots, though the sunset in the final screenshots came from a location closer to home. The app draws the sky based on the user's location, current weather, and time, and it cannot produce a custom sky. The simulator's location setting affects the sun's position, weather, and place name, while the calendar and clock settings are fixed. The author found that shooting between 16:00 and 19:00 on the real clock would yield a dusk name. The final screenshot in English reads \"Kushiro, 5:18 PM\" from a city in Hokkaido, Japan, with the status bar showing 5:18 PM.",
  "summary": "How an iOS developer used simctl, WeatherKit, and location changes to capture realistic App Store screenshots without mocking the sky.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}