Very slow test runs on iOS simulator

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Hi, Please help me to find out the reason why the test runs on the iOS simulator became so slow.
This is the small test run logs.appium-server-logs .txt (109.7 KB)

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What exactly is performing slow?
Is it possible that your app has a huge page source?
What happens if you run your test on a different OS version?

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Hi,

  1. I think this request with its response is performing slow: e.g. [WD Proxy] Proxying [GET /wd/hub/session/e463670d-afa9-48af-986c-d328664fc28a/element/232F0000-0000-0000-1FBE-000000000000/displayed] to [GET http://127.0.0.1:8100/session/B8971D5C-471E-4BEA-91C2-B6E33B59148C/element/232F0000-0000-0000-1FBE-000000000000/displayed] with no body
  2. About huge page sours, don’t think so, this is a small app, with few elements on the page.
  3. I tried to run the tests on a different version of the iOS (even Xcode) and only on 15.0 the performance is good, on the upper versions it’s the same, very slow, but a few months ago I ran tests on the latest version and everything was fine, that’s why I’m confused about the reason, maybe it happened after updates, but not sure of which one.
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Hi, experiencing the Appium iOS simulator running pretty slowly as well so wanted to reply and see if you ever found a solution.

I also have a pretty simple Storyboard setup so far. Just a few pages that each have a title, a text field, and a continue button. It takes about 10 seconds to perform each action (10 seconds to click the field, 10 seconds to clear, 10 seconds to type a short string, 10 seconds to click the continue button) which feels like an extreme amount of time given the simplicity of the app so far.

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Try to play with appium:waitForIdleTimeout capability value. Also make make sure the application under test does not constantly block the event loop by, for example, running endless animations