iPhone Simulator 6.0 not able to connect to gamecenter in sandbox mode

Question

I\'m trying to implement a gamecenter aware app targeted to iOS 6. To give some info on the environment I\'m working on mac os 10.7.5 with XCode version is 4.5.2 and xcode is ru

Answer 1

I know this question references specific Xcode and iOS simulation versions, but if your simulator is already logged in one account, and you don't mind losing whatever data you've got on the simulator (chances are small, but you never know), you can simply reset the settings and data on it.

Go to: Simulator -> Reset Content and Settings...

...and confirm the action when prompted.

This is certainly true for Xcode7.x running an iOS 9.x simulator, someone else might be able to verify whether it's true for earlier versions (especially as I've unearthed quite an old question and answer).

Animal451

Necrothreadomancy: +1

Answer 2

I got the inspiration from : https://stackoverflow.com/a/8115807/837244, and decided to log in to game center account with a different piece of code. So in viewdidload I normally called:

[[GCHelper sharedInstance] authenticateLocalUser:self];

Now I commented that out, accessed game center through below URL scheme, logged in to my account and after that logged out.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"gamecenter:"]];

And lastly reverted back by commenting out URL code and using the original code. Now it works fine, I guess the problem was that a game center account was already hooked up in simulator and it denied every login request bc of that. Hope apple goes clearer with error messages, it took a month to fix such a simple issue, may this help to others.