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

After all these years, I finally found out what the problem was! Apparently, Safari version on the Mac needs to be the same or newer than the version on the iPad. If iPad has a newer version than Mac, then it won't be visible. If Mac has the same or newer version, then iPad is visible and can be debugged.

I wish Apple had documented this anywhere - would have saved loads of time for a lot of people.

Answer 2

I had this issue with iOS 13.2.3 on both macOS Mojave and Catalina.

When I disconnected the iPhone from the Wi-Fi and only connected it via the cable the dropdown in Safari showed the iPhone.

The solution for me was: In iTunes click the sync-settings button and enabling and then disabling the "Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi".

After that the iPhone showed up again in Safari's developer menu.

Answer 3

Another thing to check is Build Settings > Signing > Code Signing Identity

Make sure both Release and Debug are set to iOS Developer

Answer 4

I know this is a little late. I had this same issue and figured I would post how I got it to work in my case just in case it helps anyone in the future. I enabled it on the iPad and it didn't show. I tried closing Safari on the iPad, disconnecting and reconnecting the cable and neither worked. It ended up for me being really simple, I just quit of Safari on my laptop and restarted it and Safari then recognized the iPad and allowed me to debug. This may not work for every case but it did for me, hope it helps.

edit: just a note, I had the iPad plugged in with web inspector enabled when I restarted Safari.

Answer 5

You also need to enable web inspector from the device.

Open the settings app, select safari, select advance and then turn on web inspector.

ref: http://www.spiraltrack.com/blog/how-debug-iphone-and-ipad-web-applications-using-safari.

Answer 6

In my case, I was using iOS beta version.

Xcode > Window > Devices and Simulators > Connect via network

then I can see error messages.

"The current device configuration is unsupported. This iPhone X (Model A1865, A1901, A1902,…" "To run on this device, please update to a version of Xcode that supports iOS 13.6. You can download Xcode from the Mac App Store or the Apple Developer website."

Oh yeah.