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

Enable web inspector on your iOS device by following these steps:

iOS Device > Settings app > Safari > Advanced > Web Inspector

This setting allows you to connect to safari on your desktop.

Answer 2

Had the same issue after updating to Safari 13 and Xcode 11.3 on macOS Catalina. For me the following change brought the iOS device back to Safari's Develop menu:

1. Connect the device via USB
2. Start Xcode and go to menu "Window > Devices and Simulators"
3. Select the device
4. Check the "Connect via network" option

Answer 3

I've found that Simulator is always in Safari's Develop menu if it's already running when Safari launches, and Simulator is never in the menu if Safari is launched first.

So you need to restart your Safari again.

That's Simulator 11.2 (comes with Xcode 9.1), Safari 11.0.3 and macOS 10.13.3

Answer 4

In my case I was running iOS 11 BETA on the iPhone, and was trying to access from Safari 10 (current stable version). I have installed Safari 11 BETA, and now it is working as expected.

So in general: Make sure you are running the latest version of Safari. And if you are testing on iOS BETAs, you can download Safari Betas & Safari Technology previews from here (Thank you for the link @Jacob Ford).

Answer 5

One more tip to try - after trying many of the above suggestions I turned off "Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi" in iTunes.

Voila! Got my iPhone into the Develop menu!

(for context, this is in Mojave 10.14.6, iOS 13.1.3, Safari 13.0.3)

Answer 6

I just had to toggle the web inspector on and off on the device I was trying to connect and it showed up under Safari's develop menu:

iOS Device > Settings app > Safari > Advanced > Web Inspector