The SQLite data file

When you compile an iOS app and execute it in the simulator, the SQLite file containing the storage for Core Data gets copied to the sandbox folder belonging to the application. This file physically contains the database objects and gets written to persist data. On some occasions, SQLite will also use additional temp files and, if write ahead is enabled, a WAL file for data not already persisted to the main .sqlite file.

You need to know the path of the sandbox directory, in order to access the .sqlite database file.

There are a many few ways to achieve this; the simplest is halting the execution of the app on a breakpoint and executing the following command on the debug console:

po NSHomeDirectory()

po stands for print object, and NSHomeDirectory() is an Objective-C function that returns the path to the sandbox folder of the app. You can open this folder with the finder, using its menu’s Go/Go to folder.

Your .sqlite file will be found inside...