How to connect Appium Inspector with iOS Simulator

Support
1

Hi!
I would like to ask you some help for my current issue. I’ve followed the doc for the installation of Appium Desktop/npm for Android and iOS emulators (installing also the external dependencies according to the report of appium-doctor). However, I only can connect appium with an Android emulator and an apk file. In the case of iOS, I am not able to complete the process. I put the following configuration:

*WebDriverAgent Port: 4723
*Session values:
{
“platformName”: “iOS”,
“platformVersion”: “14.3”,
“deviceName”: “iPhone 12”,
“automationName”: “XCUITest”,
“app”: “/path/to/file.app”
}

And the response that I obtain is always the same:

[W3C] Matched W3C error code ‘unknown command’ to UnknownCommandError
[WD Proxy] Matched ‘/status’ to command name ‘getStatus’
[WD Proxy] Proxying [GET /status] to [GET http://127.0.0.1:4723/status] with no body
[HTTP] → GET /status
[HTTP] {}
[HTTP] No route found for /status
[HTTP] ← GET /status 404 1 ms - 211
[HTTP]
[WD Proxy] Got response with status 404: {“status”:9,“value”:{“error”:“unknown command”,“message”:“The requested resource could not be found, or a request was received using an HTTP method that is not supported by the mapped resource”,“stacktrace”:“”}}

I really appreciate if you could give me some recommendations to solve this problem and apply my tests in the iOS Simulators too.

Thanks in advance,
Azahara.

2

I’ve had this problem before when using a ‘generic’ name for a simulator, i.e., the one assigned by Xcode. You may actually have 2 simulators with the same name, but with different iOS versions on them, and I’ve seen this confuse Appium. I try to name my simulators like this: ‘iPhone12_14.3’, that way I know at a glance what this simulator is running, and I avoid spaces in the name just because it’s good practice. I hope this helps you.