# Appium compatibility with Grid 4 (custom locator strategies)

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-compatibility-with-grid-4-custom-locator-strategies/36549>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 8, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-compatibility-with-grid-4-custom-locator-strategies/36549 "2022-06-08T20:30:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Joel\_Whitney](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/joel_whitney/32/10143_2.png) [@Joel\_Whitney](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Joel_Whitney)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-compatibility-with-grid-4-custom-locator-strategies/36549/1 "2022-06-08T20:30:45Z")

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I’d really like to switch to Grid 4, but I’m blocked because of a lack of support for custom locator strategies. Has there been any discussions on this since these issues were opened? @mykola-mokhnach @KazuCocoa

> <https://github.com/w3c/webdriver/issues/1649>

  

> <https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/16550>

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**Author:** ![mykola-mokhnach](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/mykola-mokhnach/32/4578_2.png) [@mykola-mokhnach](https://discuss.appium.io/u/mykola-mokhnach)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-compatibility-with-grid-4-custom-locator-strategies/36549/2 "2022-06-09T08:31:58Z")

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No updates I know of yet. Usually w3c committee is quite slow about reviewing/making decisions. There is no way on how to make custom locators work in Grid4 ☹

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**Author:** ![Joel\_Whitney](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/joel_whitney/32/10143_2.png) [@Joel\_Whitney](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Joel_Whitney)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-compatibility-with-grid-4-custom-locator-strategies/36549/3 "2022-06-09T13:55:39Z")

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Dang… Okay, thanks for the info. I’ll subscribe to those issues in case there is any movement and stick with Grid 3 for now