How to simulate the Local Notification in apple Watch App?
It is not possible to have a Watch app react to a UILocalNotification in the simulator. However, it is almost identical to reacting to a push notification, except it gets routed through a couple of different methods.
If you're presenting an actionable notification, your WKUserNotificationInterfaceController subclass would override -didReceiveLocalNotification:withCompletion: instead of -didReceiveRemoteNotification:withCompletion:.
If your Watch app is getting launched in response to interacting with one of your actionable notifications, then your root WKInterfaceController would implement -handleActionWithIdentifier:forLocalNotification: or -handleActionWithIdentifier:forRemoteNotification:, as appropriate.
From WatchKit's point-of-view, those are the only distinctions between remote and local notifications.
Run your watch app (notification target) on simulator, dismiss the notification and stay on clock face.
Switch to iOS simulator and create a notification. For testing purposes setup fireDate to something reasonable like:
notification.fireDate = NSDate().dateByAddingTimeInterval(10)Here goes the trick. Hit ⌘L to lock iOS simulator.
Enjoy notification arriving to watch app.