# React Native iOS simulator

**URL:** <https://community.imagekit.io/t/react-native-ios-simulator/212>\
**Category:** Image API\
**Created:** [September 7, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.imagekit.io/t/react-native-ios-simulator/212 "2025-09-07T17:26:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![AustinHutchison](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.imagekit.io/austinhutchison/32/52_2.png) [@AustinHutchison](https://community.imagekit.io/u/AustinHutchison)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.imagekit.io/t/react-native-ios-simulator/212/1 "2025-09-07T17:26:33Z")

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For some reason, on my iOS simulator while doing react native development, ImageKit will not serve images to the simulator.

Basically - going direct to s3 will work

```auto
        <Image source={{ uri: s3_url }}/>

```

but imagekit will not work

```auto
        <Image source={{ uri: imageKit_url }}/>

```

The same URLs will work in browser, and on an actual device.

but in the simulator they won’t load.

I had the same behavior with another image transformation provider - what is the root cause?