Appium tests incredibly slow in simulator after OS 10.12 Sierra update

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I just updated my mac to 10.12 Sierra and now my appium tests in the simulator are taking 20 minutes to run one line of code. The test eventually passes, so there are no errors. I went from appium 1.6.3 to 1.6.6-beta and there is no difference in speed.

Is anyone else having this issue?

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Not having this issue but I think the best advice is to delete all the Simulators in Xcode and then recreate them. I’ve fixed similar issues by doing this in the past.

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I’m not sure what you mean by delete and recreate. Do you mean by going into the preferences/components area? Can you please explain how you did this, thanks!

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I’ll give in steps since that seems the most illustrative:

  1. Open Xcode
  2. Go to Window -> Devices
  3. On the left side you’ll see all the simulators
  4. Right (or ‘Control’) click on each and from the contextual menu, pick ‘delete’
  5. Delete all Simulators
  6. On the bottom left, click the ‘+’ sign
  7. Use the ‘+’ button to add any Simulators you need

There are command line utilities that can do this, but since you haven’t done this before let’s stick with the basics.