Simulator shows Black screen using ionic

i went through ionic sidemenu app when i run emulate ios i get these errors:

 Usage of '--family' is deprecated in 3.x. Use --devicetypeid instead.
 Usage of '--retina' is deprecated in 3.x. Use --devicetypeid instead.
 Session could not be started: Error Domain=DTiPhoneSimulatorErrorDomain Code=2 "Simulator          session timed out." UserInfo=0x7f91f97358b0 {NSLocalizedDescription=Simulator session timed

and the black screen comes for the simulator

and these are my mac info: yosemite 10.10 ios-sim version 3.0.0 cordova version 3.6.3-0.2.13 ionic version 1.2.6-beta1 xcode 6.1

I finally found a solution to fix this problem First setup your application:

1- ionic start myAppname tabs

2- cd myAppname

3- ionic platform add iOS

4- ionic build ios

Then create a file in your projects directory called emulator.sh or whatever name and copy the content of the code below:

echo "Emulating..."
cd ./platforms/ios/build/emulator
var=$(pwd)

ios-sim launch "$var"/*.app

Set permission for the script: $sudo chmod 777 emulator.sh

whenever you want to emulate your application run the script: ./emulator.sh

so by using this script you don't need to manually open the project in Xcode and run the project

special thanks to Miroslav Masa

Are you running the ionic command from inside a tmux session? tmux seems to be preventing the communication between cordova and the iOS simulator. As soon as I tried running the ionic/cordova emulate ios commands directly from the terminal, it worked just fine!

I was having the same issue and was able to resolve it by: