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Killing a WKWebView content process in the iOS simulator to trigger a webViewWebContentProcessDidTerminate call
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trigger webViewWebContentProcessDidTerminate in simulator
# In the command line, find the PID of your simulator process:
ps -p `pgrep launchd_sim`
# or if you have many simulators running:
ps -A | grep launchd_sim
# Find the PID of the WebContent process:
pgrep -P <simulator-pid> 'com.apple.WebKit.WebContent'
# kill it
kill <webcontent-pid>
# or if you want a one-lner:
kill $(pgrep -P $(pgrep launchd_sim) 'com.apple.WebKit.WebContent')
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