Real device iPhone with iOS 9.3 and Appium 1.5.3 is not opening a new tab

smccarthy · June 20, 2016, 11:49pm

I click on an element which is suppose to open a new tab, but it never opens the new tab. I have tried turning “Block Pop-ups” off, and I do see the message “This site is attempting to open a popup window”, so I know the click is happening.

Is there a capability similar to safariAllowPopups , but for real devices?

Thank you.

Edit : Here is a snippet to show it not working :

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/smccarthy/a4e9a0c92703146d4bcb6c14b131cdd4

iOS real device new tab issue

from selenium import webdriver

capabilities = { 'browserName': 'safari', 'udid': 'UDID_HERE', 'platformName': 'iOS', 'deviceName': 'iPhone 6 Plus' }
driver = webdriver.Remote('http://xx.xx.xx.xx:4444/wd/hub', capabilities)
driver.get('http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/')
link_new_tab = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[target]")
link_new_tab.click()

zhangxintao · August 15, 2017, 1:52am

I have encountered the same problem, have you solved this problem yet?

smccarthy · December 23, 2017, 11:52pm

No, I have not. Though I haven’t done much with real devices for functional testing lately.

sannannas · February 27, 2018, 3:47pm

I have the same problem on emulators and real devices using Browserstack. When I use Safari on iOS (iPad or iPhone), no new tab opens. This works great in Android. All other clicks also work, but not if I try to open a new tab. Any help?