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Can not found a photo using simulator iOS

See original GitHub issue

The problem

I am trying to choose a photo form photo gallery. After clicking on the app, that i am testing, choose photo pop up the following screen with the following inspector

By running the server i have got the following: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.

Environment

Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.17.0
Mobile platform/version under test: Mac
Real device or emulator/simulator: simulator
Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe:

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

getIOSDriver().findElementByXPath("//XCUIElementTypeCell[@name=\"Alle Fotos\"]").click();

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:18

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Jun 4, 2020

No, the locator must be a valid ios predicate. Read https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/fe293dcaf4621ae68f4d61f891b872442f7627bc/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-predicate.md
https://kapeli.com/cheat_sheets/NSPredicate.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/index for more details

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Jun 4, 2020

This depends on how the app under test is built. I cannot reproduce the issue locally with my app under test - all elements on the Photos overlay are found properly.

Try to retrieve the page source right before the lookup is executed and check what’s there.