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[iOS] Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system

See original GitHub issue

MY ENVIRONMENT:

OS X EL CAPITAN
XCODE (Version 8.0)
SIMULATOR (iPhone 5, iOS 9.3)
APPIUM version 1.5.3 (Ara)

I can’t run ipa file. Appium threw the error. Please help me.

[iOS] Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system

[MJSONWP] Encountered internal error running command: Error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system
    at IosDriver.getIDeviceObj (lib/driver.js:380:15)
    at IosDriver.get (lib/driver.js:950:49)
    at IosDriver.installToRealDevice$ (lib/driver.js:335:21)
    at tryCatch (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:67:40)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:315:22)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:100:21)
    at invoke (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:136:37)
    at enqueueResult (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:185:17)
    at new Promise (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:197:7)
    at AsyncIterator.enqueue (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:184:12)
    at AsyncIterator.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:100:21)
    at Object.runtime.async (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:209:12)
    at IosDriver.installToRealDevice (lib/driver.js:351:16)
    at IosDriver.startRealDevice$ (lib/driver.js:309:16)
    at tryCatch (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:67:40)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:315:22)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:100:21)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:136:37)
    at run (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:104:47)
    at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:115:28
    at flush (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/$.microtask.js:19:5)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:11

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Oct 3, 2016

brew info libimobiledevice

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Oct 3, 2016

@albka1986 Xcode8+ is not supported by Appium older than 1.6. You need to upgrade your automation framework to use Appium 1.6 beta if you want it to work as expected.

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