Run react-native application on iOS device directly from command line?

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Is it possible to run react-native application on an iOS device directly from the command line like we do on simulator with react-native run ios --simulator "iPhone 5s"?

Nick Charney Kaye · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-08 19:39:12Z

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The following worked for me (tested on react native 0.38 and 0.40):

npm install -g ios-deploy
# Run on a connected device, e.g. Max’s iPhone:
npx react-native run-ios --device "Max’s iPhone"

If you try to run run-ios, you will see that the script recommends to do npm install -g ios-deploy when it reach install step after building.

EDIT: While the documentation on the various commands that react-native offers is a little sketchy, it is worth going to react-native/local-cli. There, you can see all the commands available and the code that they run - you can thus work out what switches are available for undocumented commands.

edited Feb 8, 2023 at 19:39

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paulvs Over a year ago

If you're seeing something like ios deploy does not support the following options: id, perhaps like me your iPhone is running iOS beta version and you'll have to use a beta version of Xcode. Try sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-beta.app (assuming you have the correct Xcode beta app installed).

narek Over a year ago

For me just react-native run-ios --device worked and the above command did not

Eric Wiener Over a year ago

If you get an error after running npm install -g ios-deploy, try running sudo npm install -g ios-deploy --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

Gürol Canbek Over a year ago

Note that you can run the mobile application in relase configuration on an iOS device with the device's UDID (you may get an error with --device option for device names having non-English characters: react-native run-ios --udid XXXX --configuration Release

Blue Bot Over a year ago

getting ** INSTALLATION SUCCEEDED ** but nothing happens on the device... its 100% connected properly and recognized by Xcode. Tried both main answer and comments: react-native run-ios --device with same result

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Kerem Baydoğan · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-16 13:00:10Z

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First install the required library globally on your computer:

npm install -g ios-deploy

Go to your settings on your iPhone to find the name of the device.

Then provide that below like:

react-native run-ios --device "______\'s iPhone"

Sometimes this will fail and output a message like this:

Found Xcode project ________.xcodeproj
Could not find device with the name: "_______'s iPhone".
Choose one of the following:
______’s iPhone Udid: _________

That udid is used like this:

react-native run-ios --udid 0412e2c230a14e23451699

Optionally you may use:

react-native run-ios --udid 0412e2c230a14e23451699 -- configuration Release

edited Oct 16, 2020 at 13:00

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answered Mar 8, 2019 at 23:50

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santialur Over a year ago

how do you get the device ID?

jasonleonhard Over a year ago

ios-deploy -c # when your device is plugged in

Jaya Mayu Over a year ago

for me sudo npm install -g ios-deploy --unsafe-perm=true worked.

Giang Over a year ago

input device to usb-> Xcode->Window->Devices and Simulators->Identifier this is uuid(udid)

Sam Over a year ago

@jasonleonhard How does ios-deploy -c work, it's not a command line tool? is it supposed to be yarn/npm ios-deploy -c or something, cause that didn't work either

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kuldip bhalodiya · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-17 14:54:16Z

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Run this command in project root directory.

1>. List of iPhone devices for found the connected Real Devices and Simulator. same as like adb devices command for android.

xcrun xctrace list devices

OR

xcrun instruments -s devices

2>. Select device using this command which you want to run your app

Using Device Name

react-native run-ios --device "Kool's iPhone"

Using UDID

react-native run-ios --udid 0412e2c2******51699

wait and watch to run your app in specific devices - K00L ;)

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answered Nov 8, 2019 at 9:25

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aksyuma Over a year ago

using UDID method, I get the error : "error The device and udid options are mutually exclusive"

Nirnay Kulshreshtha Over a year ago

Please use xctrace list devices instead of xcrun instruments -s devices in xcode 13 and above.

Jay Koutavas Over a year ago

Actually, it's now xcrun xctrace list devices

AmerllicA · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-15 15:12:52Z

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Actually, For the first build, please do it with Xcode and then do the following way:

brew install ios-deploy
npx react-native run-ios --device

The second command will run the app on the first connected device.

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answered Jun 8, 2020 at 13:48

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AmerllicA Over a year ago

@famfamfam, The second command will start metro bundler and give you a terminal, you can see logs there.

Js Yau · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-05 08:41:52Z

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Got mine working with

react-native run-ios --device="My’s iPhone"

And notice that your iphone name, the apostrophe s ' might be different. Mine is using this ’

answered Jul 5, 2020 at 8:41

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plum 0 Over a year ago

Of course it had to be a different apostrophe...

Damitha Raveendra · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-22 05:28:16Z

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Just wanted to add something to Kamil's answer

After following the steps, I still got an error,

error Could not find device with the name: "....'s Xr"

After removing special characters from the device name (Go to Settings -> General -> About -> Name)

Eg: '

It Worked !

Hope this will help someone who faced similar issue.

Tested with - react-native-cli: 2.0.1 | react-native: 0.59.8 | VSCode 1.32 | Xcode 10.2.1 | iOS 12.3

edited May 22, 2019 at 5:28

answered May 22, 2019 at 5:19

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Toma Over a year ago

I got a similar problem because the apostrophe was actually an unicode right single quotation mark. After copy-pasting the device name from the device list it worked.

Philip Frerk Over a year ago

i had the same problem, i had white space and brackets in my iphone's name. Thanks :)

Cedriga · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16 13:01:40Z

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If you get this error [email protected] preinstall: ./src/scripts/check_reqs.js && xcodebuild ... using npm install -g ios-deploy

Try this. It works for me:

sudo npm uninstall -g ios-deploy
brew install ios-deploy

edited Aug 16, 2019 at 13:01

answered Aug 16, 2019 at 11:23

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conmak · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-13 12:33:30Z

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To automate this for any physical device, you could try using:

npx react-native run-ios --device=$(xcrun instruments -s devices | grep -v '(Simulator)' | tail -1 | sed 's/ (.*//')

Note: This uses the last listed device from xcrun that is not listed as a simulator. The device name is parsed from the xcrun instruments string pulling all characters that appear before the first (.

This works fine if you only have one apple device plugged in and its name does not include ( in it.

Otherwise, you may just want to run:

xcrun instruments -s devices

Pick your device (up to the version is the device name you should use).

Then run:

npx react-native run-ios --device='yourDeviceName'

answered Aug 13, 2021 at 12:33

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Oyeme Over a year ago

Now it's npx react-native run-ios --device=$( xcrun xctrace list devices | grep -v '(Simulator)' | tail -1 | sed 's/ (.*//')

Dmitrij Prokhorenko · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-12 14:20:52Z

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I had same issue. Command npx run-ios then select Physical Device worked after renaming device name in Settings->General->About->Name. I used name with only letters without spaces and special symbols.

answered Oct 12, 2021 at 14:20

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Andrew Ananda · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-13 12:06:36Z

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For you to run on specific ios device run

yarn ios --simulator "iPhone 8" if you are using yarn or
npx react-native run-ios --simulator="iPhone SE (1st generation)"

answered Jul 13, 2021 at 12:06

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A.A. · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-26 03:46:06Z

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The problem with me the device was recognized in Xcode 13 but couldn't find it in the devices list when run command

xcrun xctrace list devices

But After upgrade to Xcode 13.4.1 I could see the device in the devices list

Then I followed what's mentioned in previous posts first install ios-deploy package

yarn global add ios-deploy

Get your device id

xcrun xctrace list devices

Then

react-native run-ios --udid "your device id"

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Hernán Albertario · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-19 22:40:33Z

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Given an iPhone named:

Ton’s iPhone

Just run:

xcrun xctrace list devices | grep -w "Ton" | awk -F "[()]" '{ print $1 }' | xargs -I iphone npx react-native run-ios --scheme Debug --device iphone

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Simon · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-01 10:48:34Z

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The --device argument only works if you have a simulator installed. I've also opened a PR to react-native-community/cli, it's a bug in there.

So if xcrun xctrace list devices returns all the correct devices and it still doesn't work, try installing a dummy simulator.

// @react-native-community/cli - parseXctraceIOSDevicesList

function parseIOSDevicesList(text: string): Array<Device> {
  const devices: Array<Device> = [];
  let isSimulator = false;
  // Thats the problem causing the empty device list
  if (text.indexOf('== Simulators ==') === -1) {
    return [];
  }

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First install the required library globally on your computer:

Go to your settings on your iPhone to find the name of the device.

Then provide that below like:

Sometimes this will fail and output a message like this:

That udid is used like this:

Optionally you may use:

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Optionally you may use:

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