Appium iOS- How can I go to Home screen

relaunch the app by using driver.launchApp() method, you will able to go on homescreen

Hope it will help.

This will only launch the app again, will not unintsall and then reinstall the app.

Then you should use a loop according to the back button visibility, if back button is getting displayed then click on it till you reach home screen

then what you actually do manually, to go till homescreen ?

driver.runAppInBackground(Duration.ofSeconds(-1));

This will also send the app in the background then will launch, but he needs to perform some operations in the app, don’t want to relaunch the app

No it doesn’t @Shubham_Agarwal. The -1 on the duration means it will stay in the background.

@Telmo_Cardoso - Yeah I am agree with you, but I don’t think there is way to go homescreen if we don’t have back button in the application. we have to either use launchApp() or runAppInBackground(duration) and both of them sends the app in the background.

one more thing runAppInBackground(duration) method, persists the last state of the application.

Ah sorry. I was reading device home screen not app home screen… It’s what we get for reading in diagonal.

Then its easier, he just needs to make the steps any normal user would do to go back to app home screen like you told.

Yeah … that’s the thing
It was nice discussion with you @Telmo_Cardoso , Thanks

he he, that will work I use it a lot

with XCuiTest driver you can interact with native iOS,yes. I use it to enable/disable WiFi, mobile data, location, permissions, etc.

is there any possible way that we can tap on the home button of the ios device ?
I think after tapping the home button, we can perform native ios operations and can again launch the app by providing bundle id.

on real ios devices thats not possible. For simulator I think there are scripts around to do that. But if you just want to go to homescreen you dont need to tap the home button, just use the above command.