Appium/XCUITest - Book with Apple pay button not clickable or displayed

Issues/Bugs
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I am writing some E2E tests with Appium 2, latest XCUITest and Python. I stumbled upon a problem. For some reason, even though I see the element and its Accessibility ID/XPATH (screenshot attached), I am unable to click it as I get the error below:

NoSuchElementError: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.
at XCUITestDriver.doNativeFind

From Appium log:

[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Calling AppiumDriver.findElement() with args: ["xpath","//XCUIElementTypeOther[@name=\"Book with Apple Pay\"]","47ecfcae-3a31-4b8f-ae27-c1069597c822"]
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Executing command 'findElement'
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Valid locator strategies for this request: xpath, id, name, class name, -ios predicate string, -ios class chain, accessibility id, css selector
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Waiting up to 0 ms for condition
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Matched '/element' to command name 'findElement'
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Proxying [POST /element] to [POST http://127.0.0.1:8100/session/73449F3A-89E8-4E0F-89C3-2040654549DC/element] with body: {"using":"xpath","value":"//XCUIElementTypeOther[@name=\"Book with Apple Pay\"]"}
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Got response with status 404: {"value":{"error":"no such element","message":"unable to find an element using 'xpath', value '//XCUIElementTypeOther[@name=\"Book with Apple Pay\"]'","traceback":"(\n\t0   WebDriverAgentLib                   0x0000000119adf7b0 FBNoSuchElementErrorResponseForRequest + 252\n\t1   WebDriverAgentLib                   0x0000000119adf5e0 +[FBFindElementCommands handleFindElement:] + 312\n\t2   WebDriverAgentLib                   0x0000000119aa2dd8 -[FBRoute_TargetAction mountRequest:intoResponse:] + 168\n\t3   WebDriverAgentLib                   0x0000000119a8c33c __37-[FBWebServer registerRouteHandlers:]_block_invoke + 404\n\t4   WebDriverAgentLib                   0x0000000119ac4d18 -[RoutingHTTPServer handleRoute:withRequest:response:] + 168\n\t5   WebDriverAgentLib                   0x0000000119ac5808 __72-[RoutingHTTPServer routeMethod:withPath:parameters:request:connection:]_block_invoke + 64\n\t6   libdispatch.dylib                   0x0000000180171978 _dispatch_client_callout + 16\n\t7   libdispatch.dyl...
[47ecfcae][W3C] Matched W3C error code 'no such element' to NoSuchElementError
[47ecfcae][XCUITestDriver@ce2b] Encountered internal error running command: NoSuchElementError: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.

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Here is my click code and driver configuration.

    'ios': (AppiumBy.ACCESSIBILITY_ID, 'Book with Apple Pay'), # tried XPATH as well

    def pay_with_apple_pay(self):
    self.wait_for_element_to_be_displayed(self.privacy_policy_link[self.os])
    self.wait_for_element_clickable(self.change_payment_method_button[self.os]).click()
    self.wait_for_element_clickable(self.apple_pay_select[self.os]).click()
    self.wait_for_element_clickable(self.book_with_apple_pay_button[self.os]).click()




    options = XCUITestOptions()
    options.platform_name = 'iOS'
    options.platform_version = config['ios']['platform_version']
    options.device_name = config['ios']['device_name']
    options.automation_name = 'XCUITest'
    options.auto_accept_alerts = True
    options.no_reset = False
    options.is_headless = config['ios']['is_headless']
    options.set_capability('showXcodeLog', True)
    options.set_capability('appium:maxTypingFrequency', 10)
    options.set_capability('simpleIsVisibleCheck', True)
    options.set_capability('appium:settings[snapshotMaxDepth]', 62)
    options.set_capability('appium:settings[pageSourceExcludedAttributes]', ['visible'])
    options.set_capability('appium:settings[customSnapshotTimeout]', 500)
    options.set_capability('appium:includeSafariInWebviews', True)
    options.set_capability('appium:isInspectable', True)
    options.set_capability('appium:webviewConnectTimeout', 9000)

I can find any other element no problem. Not sure why I can’t click Pay with Apple Pay, any info is appreciated.

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This is a known issue that is intentional by Apple. They view automated interaction with Apple Pay as a security risk, and thus restrict XCUITest from accessing such elements. The Apple approved way of testing Apple Pay is called Apple Pay sandbox testing. Here is a blog that goes into a lot of detail about it:

Most device farms have some sort of documentation for testing Apple Pay on their devices. There are too many to list here, but as an example here is the SauceLabs documentation, which should give you an idea of the challenges you face and how to go about overcoming them:

You should do some more research as I believe some of the vendors support some sort of automation.

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