Copying content from iOS Clipboard

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Hello, I am trying to get the content from iOS clipboard. The idea is to long press on a build number on the app, which later pops up a playerID that comes out like this: PlayerID: 84848-848gb-488b-b48484.

Currently, the script below actually does the long press and shows the playerID and copy button when you long press, however, i have tried to retrieve the playerID by extracting it, but it throws this error:

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Time out after waiting for element //*[contains(@name, 'PlayerID:')] for 10000 ms

The long press actually happens and the content comes up after the long press, but it seems after the clipboard pop-up comes up, it closes before it can find or extract the playerID.

This is the full implementation code that does the long press and tries to extract the playerID. The playerID is always different whenever there is a new session or the app starts, so here I am getting it dynamically:

FYI - This is the xpath of the element after inspecting //XCUIElementTypeStaticText[@name="PlayerID: 018e8de5-a3ff-4745-bded-ae05c5f1769e"]

        WebElement theBuild = driver.findElement(By.id("settings_version"));
        // Create a new instance of Actions
        Actions action = new Actions(driver);

        // Perform the long press action (with a duration)
        action.clickAndHold(theBuild)
                .pause(Duration.ofSeconds(2))  // Long press for 2 seconds
                .release()
                .perform();

        // Construct the XPath with partial match for the accessibility ID
        String xpath = "//*[contains(@name, 'PlayerID:')]";

        // Find the element matching the XPath
        WebElement playerIDElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));

        // Get the text value of the element, which represents the dynamic portion of 
        the accessibility ID
        playerId = playerIDElement.getAttribute("name").replace("PlayerID: ", "");

        // Print the retrieved dynamic part of the accessibility ID
        System.out.println("Player ID: " + playerId);

My envrionment setup is:

  • Appium version: 2.11.4
  • XCUITest Driver: 7.26.4
  • Simulator: iPhone 14 Plus
  • iOS Version: iOS 18
2

Try to replace xpath locators with faster ones, for example ios predicate

3

I have tried using iOS Predicate, but still the same issue. It is not printing out the playerID.

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

        // Perform the long press action (with a duration)
        action.clickAndHold(theBuild)
                .pause(Duration.ofSeconds(2))  // Long press for 2 seconds
                .release()
                .perform();

        // Construct the iOS predicate string
        String predicate = "name == 'PlayerID: *'";

        // Find the element matching the iOS predicate string
        WebElement playerIDElement = 
        driver.findElement(AppiumBy.iOSNsPredicateString(predicate));

        // Get the text value of the element, which represents the dynamic portion of the accessibility ID
        String playerId = playerIDElement.getAttribute("name").replace("PlayerID: ", "");

        // Print the retrieved dynamic part of the accessibility ID
        System.out.println("Player ID: " + playerId);
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What I realized is that, it was working with the following code prior to when i made updates to appium, xcode and ios sdks

TouchAction action = new TouchAction((PerformsTouchActions) driver);
        action.longPress(LongPressOptions.longPressOptions().withElement(ElementOption.element(theBuild)).withDuration(Duration.ofSeconds(2))).release().perform();

But TouchAction is deprecated, so I updated it to use Actions, which does not work as it used to. Any ideas?

WebElement theBuild = driver.findElement(By.id("settings_version"));
        // Create a new instance of Actions
        Actions action = new Actions(driver);

        // Perform the long press action (with a duration)
        action.clickAndHold(theBuild)
                .pause(Duration.ofSeconds(2))  // Long press for 2 seconds
                .release()
                .perform();
5

Fixed this. I had autoAcceptAlerts in my capabilities and removed it.