Discussion on "How to re-enable keyboard shortcuts in Xcode 27's Device Hub"

Kris Slazinski · 2026-09-15T14:32:19.208Z

iOSdev / Xcode 27 For some odd reason, Apple decided to disable keyboard shortcuts in Device Hub, their replacement for Xcode Simulator. Well, most shortcuts. I've been using many of Xcode Simulator's

Ben Thomas

Sep 16

Got this:

Command line interface to a user's defaults.
Syntax:

'defaults' [-currentHost | -host <hostname>] followed by one of the following:

Ben Thomas

Sep 16

Hi Kris, I'm still on macOS 26 on this work laptop because we need to keep submitting with Xcode 26 for the time being.

I do have Xcode 27 installed.

The command I ran in terminal was: defaults -container com.apple.dt.Devices write com.apple.dt.Devices hostKeybindingPolicy -int 1

I tried running defaults write com.apple.dt.Devices hostKeybindingPolicy -int 1 but still the screenshot shortcut doesn't appear in the Controls menu of DeviceHub.

Regards Ben

Kris Slazinski

Sep 17

Ben, you should use 0 not 1 to have shortcuts enabled in both modes.

I don’t know why did you see this message you posted earlier. Maybe because of macOS 26? Also, this command for changing settings should be posted as one thing. Formatted on blog it looks like separate lines of commands.

Also I heard from one person that they needed to grant full disk access to Terminal to make this work - but again the message you posted didn’t look like that’s the case.

Giano

4d ago

This worked for me on macOS 26:

defaults write com.apple.dt.Devices hostKeybindingPolicy -int 0

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