# Error: Command 'idevice\_id -l' errored out: Error: spawn idevice\_id ENOENT

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/error-command-idevice-id-l-errored-out-error-spawn-idevice-id-enoent/29579>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/error-command-idevice-id-l-errored-out-error-spawn-idevice-id-enoent/29579 "2020-02-06T06:13:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhiqa](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/abhiqa/32/11074_2.png) [@abhiqa](https://discuss.appium.io/u/abhiqa)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/error-command-idevice-id-l-errored-out-error-spawn-idevice-id-enoent/29579/1 "2020-02-06T06:13:31Z")

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I am facing configuration related error while updating to new Appium and xcode version  
current Appium version: 1.8.1  
New Appium version : 1.14.0  
current xcode version: 9.4.1  
New xcode version: 11.2.1  
Current iOS version for Simulator (iPhone 8) : 11.4  
New iOS version for Simulator (iPhone 8) : 13.2.2

PFB logs for more details:

_ **Error: Command ‘idevice\_id -l’ errored out: Error: spawn idevice\_id ENOENT** _

```
[debug] [XCUITest] Current user: 'apple'
[XCUITest] Error: Command 'idevice_id -l' errored out: Error: spawn idevice_id ENOENT
[XCUITest] at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:267:19)
[XCUITest] at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:467:16)
[XCUITest] at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)
[XCUITest] at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/teen_process/lib/exec.js:41:14)
[XCUITest] at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:321:20)
[XCUITest] at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:273:12)
[XCUITest] at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:467:16)
[XCUITest] at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)
[debug] [BaseDriver] Event 'newSessionStarted' logged at 1580968421757 (11:23:41 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time))
[debug] [W3C] Encountered internal error running command: Error: Command 'idevice_id -l' errored out: Error: spawn idevice_id ENOENT
[debug] [W3C] at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:267:19)
[debug] [W3C] at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:467:16)
[debug] [W3C] at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)
[debug] [W3C] at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/teen_process/lib/exec.js:41:14)
[debug] [W3C] at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:321:20)
[debug] [W3C] at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:273:12)
[debug] [W3C] at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:467:16)
[debug] [W3C] at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 514 ms - 1043

```

@Aleksei @mykola-mokhnach any help is highly appropriated.

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**Author:** ![abhiqa](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/abhiqa/32/11074_2.png) [@abhiqa](https://discuss.appium.io/u/abhiqa)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/error-command-idevice-id-l-errored-out-error-spawn-idevice-id-enoent/29579/2 "2020-02-06T06:22:40Z")

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Note: 1 - **xcodebuild - WebDriverAgent.xdoceproj - scheme WebDriverAgentRunner - destination 'id=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX’ test** command is not executed during last step of set up process. (as i redo the appium set up process from scratch)

Note: 2. I have currently 2 xcode projects in my Application folder  
1 - Xcode 9.4.1 (named as Xcode 9.4.1)  
2 - Xcode 11.2.1 (named as Xcode)

i also tried to fix it by runnning ‘brew install libimobiledevice --HEAD’ mentioned in  
[#8031](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/8031) , it didn’t worked for me also.

**Though i am able to run my test using Appium Desktop v1.15.1**

Thanks in advance.  
Abhishek
