# Appium support for automating settings on real IOS device

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 13, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484 "2015-10-13T05:01:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pfrwalega](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@pfrwalega](https://discuss.appium.io/u/pfrwalega)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484/1 "2015-10-13T05:01:11Z")

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As a user I would like the ability to automate settings on a real IOS device so that I may programmatically set the phone up for various test scenarios.

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**Author:** ![Aleksei](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/aleksei/32/6267_2.png) [@Aleksei](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Aleksei)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484/2 "2015-10-13T18:32:53Z")

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not a problem :-0. just fire issue in Apple bug tracker.

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**Author:** ![Mobile\_Test\_Test](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Mobile\_Test\_Test](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Mobile_Test_Test)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484/3 "2015-10-16T06:12:24Z")

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@Aleksei

Could you be more specific, I’m running into a similar requirement to automate settings in iOS devices

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**Author:** ![pfrwalega](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@pfrwalega](https://discuss.appium.io/u/pfrwalega)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484/4 "2015-10-16T06:26:47Z")

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He’s saying that its not an Appium constraint. The issue is Apple. They currently do not allow the instrumentation to function in that way. And for Appium to support such a feature Apple would have to bake it in.

Now this feature request was only for real ios devices. In a simulated env you can open the settings.

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**Author:** ![Mobile\_Test\_Test](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Mobile\_Test\_Test](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Mobile_Test_Test)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/appium-support-for-automating-settings-on-real-ios-device/6484/5 "2015-10-16T06:34:13Z")

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Yeah exactly ! I agree that point and I know appium has no capability to do that.

In real device should figure out a wat to automate…

Running scripts in iOS simulator is effective and fast ???