This should indeed work. Can you be a little more specific about what is going on? What version of Meteor are you running? What log messages do you see in the Xcode console?
I think iOS 9 simulator problem related to Apple new App Transport Security.
If anyone could have experience with configuring Cordova + Meteor 1.2 and iOS 9 simulator, please share.
It seems I have the same issue.
The message I get is “waiting for server connection”.
I have no error in the terminal.
Connection via a browser on localhost:3000 works fine.
When I simulate the todos example it does not seem to have any issues to connect to the server though.
El capitan 10.11.1
XCode 7.1
Simulator v 9.1
Meteor 1.1.6