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iOS permissions capability not working with native Xcode

See original GitHub issue

The problem

capability.permissions={“blah”:{“location-always”: “yes”}} was working through Xcode in appium 1.17.0 and 1.17.1. Now with 1.18.0 I get the old error message about applesimutils

[debug] [W3C] Encountered internal error running command: Error: applesimutils binary has not been found in your PATH. Please install it ('brew tap wix/brew && brew install wix/brew/applesimutils') to be able to change application permissions
[debug] [W3C]     at execWix (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-ios-simulator/lib/permissions.js:41:11)

Environment

Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.18.0
Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): 1.17.1
Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Mac OSX 10.15.5
Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): v12.14.0
Npm or Yarn package manager: Npm v6.13.4
Mobile platform/version under test: iOS 13.5
Real device or emulator/simulator: simulator
Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: CLI

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

Start any session with anything like

capability.permissions={"blah":{"location-always": "yes"}}

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:8

Top GitHub Comments

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Jul 22, 2020

The error is expected. We’ve recently switched this logic to use native simctl commands, but it turned out these have bugs, so we had to revert back and use WIX, which is stable: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/14355

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mykola-mokhnachcommented, Jul 21, 2020

could you also attach the log from the previous version where it worked?