Unable to find displayedElement and visible is false even when it is true.

The problem

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Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.16.0-beta.3
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): N/A
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: macOS 10.14.6
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 10.17.0
• Npm or Yarn package manager: 6.4.1
• Mobile platform/version under test: iOS 12.4
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Real Device IPhone 6s plus
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: Appium Desktop

Details

If necessary, describe the problem you have been experiencing in more detail. In the appium Desktop it is able to inspect the element, but with class chain I was not able to find out with

**/XCUIElementTypeButton[`name == "Cancel" AND visible == true`]

Even though the inspector says it is true. However, I was able to find the element with

**/XCUIElementTypeButton[`name == "Cancel" AND visible == false`]

See the attached screenshots inspector class chain query true not found class chain query false elements found

Link to Appium logs

[BaseDriver] Waiting up to 0 ms for condition
[WD Proxy] Matched '/elements' to command name 'findElements'
[WD Proxy] Proxying [POST /elements] to [POST http://localhost:8100/session/B4F14AD1-EB54-47CE-B41D-0CFE5B17AD48/elements] with body: {"using":"class chain","value":"**/XCUIElementTypeButton[`name == \"Cancel\" AND visible == true`]"}
[Xcode]     t =  3757.87s Get all elements bound by accessibility element for: Elements matching predicate '(wdName == "Cancel" AND isWDVisible == 1) AND (1 == 1 OR identifier == 0 OR frame == 0 OR value == 0 OR title == 0 OR label == 0 OR elementType == 0 OR enabled == 0 OR placeholderValue == 0)'
[Xcode] 
[Xcode]     t =  3757.88s     Requesting snapshot of accessibility hierarchy for app with pid 52
[Xcode] 
[Xcode]     t =  3758.10s     Find: Descendants matching type Button
[Xcode] 
[Xcode]     t =  3758.11s     Find: Elements matching predicate '(wdName == "Cancel" AND isWDVisible == 1) AND (1 == 1 OR identifier == 0 OR frame == 0 OR value == 0 OR title == 0 OR label == 0 OR elementType == 0 OR enabled == 0 OR placeholderValue == 0)'
[Xcode] 
[WD Proxy] Got response with status 200: {"value":[],"sessionId":"B4F14AD1-EB54-47CE-B41D-0CFE5B17AD48"}
[MJSONWP (d4297697)] Responding to client with driver.findElements() result: []
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/d4297697-f6aa-496a-8092-ace43d2642d0/elements 200 289 ms - 74
[HTTP] 

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

This is hard since I can’t share the app, but on certain places one of button is visible, but it is not able to find with that flag.

[hokyungh]

@KazuCocoa It works with simpleIsVisibleCheck on Appium Desktop. Is this supposed to be the recommended way? Thanks for the solution though!

[vzenzo]

This still does not work at all, even with “simpleIsVisibleCheck” set to true