iOS 8 and Xcode 6 did indeed add some additional integration to push notifications. If you select the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus simulator your app will now appear under Settings with a full featured notifications settings screen (see attached) and will show the in app modal when requesting push notification permissions for the … Read more
You might have enabled (checked) the “Send all keyboard shortcuts to device” mode. It’s in the Hardware > Keyboard submenu. Pressing both Left and Right Cmd keys at the same time will exit keyboard capturing mode and re-enable menu shortcuts.
I fixed it by resetting the simulator: iOS Simulator > Reset Contents and Settings…
QuickTime itself does not seem to offer this functionality therefore you have to resort to some other means to hide the cursor. On OSX there are some tools that allow this. Cursourcerer is the first that springs to mind. However, as this really hides the cursor, it might not be ideal as you yourself will … Read more
Close all simulators and just run sudo killall -9 com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService to restart the service. All simulators will launch as usual.