Switch from Native app to Safari Browser

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Currently in one of my scenario Mobile safari will be launched from native app. But I can’t switch to this newly opened Mobile Safari in iPhone. Following is the code used for opening the app, which is fine.

       DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
        capabilities.setCapability("automationName", "XCUITest");
        capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "IOS");
        capabilities.setCapability("udid", "xxxxxxx");
        capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "Appium iPhone");
        capabilities.setCapability("xcodeOrgId", "XXXXXX");
        capabilities.setCapability("xcodeSigningId", "Apple Developer Program");
        capabilities.setCapability("bundleId", "xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx");
        capabilities.setCapability("useNewWDA", "true");
        driver = new IOSDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

Above code will open the app in connect real device. Doing a click on the button inside the app will opening mobile safari with the correct url. But when I tried something like

ArrayList contexts = new ArrayList(driver.getContextHandles());

it is only returning Native_Context, which is basically my original native app. How can I switch to safari and do something over there. My assumption was that safari will be a webview and once I switch to this webview I can interact with Safari.

In the case of Android, similar story,

ArrayList contexts = new ArrayList(driver.getContextHandles());

was returning Native and WebContext. I am able to switch to this webcontext and do the needed operation.

Appium Version : 1.22.2
Iphone X
IOS : 15.3.1

Any help will be appreciated.

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you cant switch to Safari using your app context cause it NOT webView inside app.
inspect and work with Safari now as with your app.

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Try to enable appium:includeSafariInWebviews capability. I’m not sure if this is exactly what you need though

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Thank you guys for the quick response. Thanks @mykola-mokhnach. With “includeSafariInWebviews” I am able to access Safari Webview. This is exactly what I was looking for. Really appreciate it.