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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:03:47+00:00

I am in the process of (finally) loading my App onto an iPhone device

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I am in the process of (finally) loading my App onto an iPhone device for testing. So far I have only tested the App in the simulator. The application is data-centric and uses an SQLite database. I have created an appropriate SQLite database with sample data which I used in the simulator. How can I copy this .sqlite3 file to the actual iPhone?

This was easy with the simulator as I could just copy the .sqlite3 file into the ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/{UUID}/Documents folder, but I cannot figure out how to get this into the same location on the actual iPhone device. Recreating the database from scratch on the phone is not really an option, as I have already done all the hard-yards creating the database on the Mac.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why not add it to your application bundle? Right-click on the Resources folder in your project window in Xcode, then select Add > Existing Files... to add your sqlite database.

    You would then load the file from the application bundle:

    NSString *databasePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"mySQLiteDatabaseFile" ofType:@"sqlite3"];
NSData *databaseData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:databasePath];
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