Reset option for iOS physical devices

Issues/Bugs
1

Can an ios app on physical device be reset through the resetApp() method?
An android app gets reset using the resetApp method but not an iOS app on physical device

2

Reset on iOS physical devices is difficult. You could add a button in your app that resets. Another idea is to automate the install/uninstall using ios-deploy or similar software.

3

At the moment i am implementing Install/Uninstall which i guess uses fruitstrap,And works fine for now.

4

Sorry to bump and old thread.
I’m trying to do something similar.
I have something like this:

	$ios_real_device="hey"
		unless $ios_real_device.nil? #Checks the global value to see if we are on a real iOS device.
			bundle_id="com.blackboard.student"
			ios_app_for_device=	"./apps/Bb Student_device.app"
			system "./bin/uninstall_bbstudent.sh"
			system "./bin/install_bbstudent.sh"
			sleep 2
			background_app (3)
		end

I’m expecting background_app to relaunch the app and have my tests start.
The shell scripts reference ideviceinstaller commands that run successfully.

However, I’m getting these errors below after background_app above.
The background_app command by itself above in arc works fine.

Any thoughts welcome.
Thanks!
Eric

Install - Complete
  (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchDriverError)
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:52:in `assert_ok'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in `initialize'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `new'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `create_response'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:66:in `request'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:40:in `call'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:640:in `raw_execute'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.44.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:618:in `execute'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/appium_lib-4.1.0/lib/appium_lib/device/device.rb:143:in `background_app'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/appium_lib-4.1.0/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:212:in `rescue in block (4 levels) in promote_appium_methods'
 /Users/esherman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/appium_lib-4.1.0/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:204:in `block (4 levels) in promote_appium_methods'
 /Users/esherman/Documents/git_stash_qa_automation.d/qa-automation/appium-student.d/features/common/support/hooks.rb:21:in `Before'
5

I figured this out.
I forgot to re-add this:
$driver.start_driver

No need to respond :slight_smile:

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