iPad is not showing in Develop menu on OSX Safari

Question

I need to debug an HTML app on ipad. I used to be able to connect ipad by USB cable to my mac and it would show in the \"Develop\" menu in Safari. I have two ipads now - one w

Answer 1

I experienced the same issue today with iOS 13 and Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave).

What fixed it for me was simply installing a required Update in MacOS.

However, it is not an update that is installed via system preferences but only via a dialog that appears when trying to connect the devices.

Unfortunately the dialog appeared behind all other windows and could not be tabbed to. Thus I did not see it at all until I closed all other windows.

Regarding the dialog itself - here some information from Apple support:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208831