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Siri Swears the PR Is Reviewed

Good evening, Master Wayne.

I've read the changelog, so you needn't.

Expo SDK 58 arrived on October 15, announced by Alan Hughes and Brent Vatne .

And for once, sir, the headline is not a fresh way to break your Podfile.

So what happened to the Simulator?

Xcode 27 has retired Simulator.app , and the new expo-device-hub plugin turns your browser into a device dashboard instead.

It streams your iOS simulators and Android emulators, and you can tap, swipe and type straight into them.

Next to them sit live CPU, memory and network graphs, a bit like the screens in the Batcave.

Here it is running an iPhone 17 Pro Max simulator, courtesy of Nathan Schroeder ( @nater02 ).

To try it, run npx expo install expo-device-hub , then npx expo start , and the link will be waiting in your terminal.

Can Siri finally talk to our apps?

The household has a new member of staff, sir.

The alpha package expo-app-intents lets Siri, Shortcuts and…