# Unable to launch safari on real device using appium

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/unable-to-launch-safari-on-real-device-using-appium/10706>\
**Category:** Issues/Bugs\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/unable-to-launch-safari-on-real-device-using-appium/10706 "2016-06-14T07:11:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![email2vimalraj](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/email2vimalraj/32/1665_2.png) [@email2vimalraj](https://discuss.appium.io/u/email2vimalraj)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/unable-to-launch-safari-on-real-device-using-appium/10706/2 "2016-06-14T11:52:19Z")

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I see you are missing SafariLauncher.app file to launch the safari in real iOS device. Try to follow the steps as documented here:

> [@Mobile Web automation on iOS real device – Safari](https://discuss.appium.io/t/mobile-web-automation-on-ios-real-device-safari/4900):
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> As there are a lot of us facing issues with Safari browser automation, I wanted to document the steps that help the members to do the browser automation. Pre-requisites: a. Xcode installed on Mac OS X. b. Device added to Apple developer program c. Get SafariLauncher.app([https://github.com/budhash/SafariLauncher](https://github.com/budhash/SafariLauncher)) d. Launch the SafariLauncher.app on connected device from Xcode. e. Install appium (IDE) f. Download appium from github ([https://github.com/appium/appium](https://github.com/appium/appium)) g. Install ios-webki…

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