Allow to restart app without resetting the app data

This is a feature request / suggestion to add a restart app command.

Use case: I want to test that a user, who already has logged in before, sees a specific page when he reopens the app later.

I’m aware of the noReset capability. But I want to have this set to false because each test scenario should start with a clean state. I do this with the reset command.

I already have read the similar issues:

• https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/3553
• https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/3783

Let me know if this is something that could be added. I can try to implement it.

[michaelz-slalom]

A year later, still looking for this functionality in iOS.

[kenkrzeminski]

This feature would be handy. I often write tests that need a quick way to reset the force quit the app on iOS and re-launch it, without clearing the session. When noReset is set to true, the old session is preserved in simulator. I experimented with various settings and commands including driver.update_settings (I’m using the Ruby lib) but nothing seemed to enable me to create a setup where the session is cleared on initializing the tests while allowing the app to be quit/re-launched during the tests.

Essentially, I need a clean slate at the start of a test run every single time, but the ability to quit and re-launch the app without clearing the session or restarting the simulator. This doesn’t seem possible with iOS simulator at the moment.