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How to "clear history and website data" or start clear session

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Environment

Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.6.3
Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: OS X Sierra
Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 7
Mobile platform/version under test: iOS
Real device or emulator/simulator: Real device (iPhone 6 iOS 10.2)
Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: CLI

Details

How to “clear history and website data” or start clear session on iOS ?

Capabilities didn’t help desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NO_RESET, false);

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Feb 16, 2017

Ah, you are on real device. Then pass our kudos to Apple 😉 There is no known way to reset Safari browsing data using one simple command. Although, in theory you can try to:

Open a private tab and then work inside this tab
Clear browsing data by clicking the same buttons (using Appium), that “normal” user would click to clear the data.
Create a “magic” control on your site under test, which resets the local data and activate it every time you need to clear the stuff

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Nov 28, 2017

There is no built-in possibility to do it directly. Just perform the same tap actions as a normal user would do in order to open it.