When I'm inspecting a WKWebView in a simulator and the WKWebView loads a local URL with a port number, I've found that most features of Safari dev tools that worked in iOS 17 are broken in iOS 18. Here are the steps I'm taking:
Set up a WKWebView with isInspectable = true that loads a local URL, e.g. https://www.local.mydomain.com:3000
Install a self-signed SSL certificate on a simulator for www.local.mydomain.com
Run my app on the simulator
The WKWebView loads successfully
In Safari on my Mac, I can select the WKWebView and open dev tools to inspect it
If the simulator is on iOS 17, this works fine, no issues.
But if the simulator is on iOS 18, Safari dev tools are mostly broken. I can tell that there is a connection to the WKWebView because the Network tab logs the requests that I expect. But I cannot use any of the other dev tools features: Elements, Sources, Console, etc.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a workaround?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Xcode
Safari Developer Tools
Safari and Web
Simulator