I am getting following error when tried to launch safari browser on ios device using webdriver.io and appium.
ERROR: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Could not initialize ios-deploy make sure it is installed (npm install -g ios-deploy) and works on your system
If you are running appium on a real iOS device, there are some other dependencies you will need to install.
specifically, you need to install ios-deploy.
You can install it using homebrew:
brew install ios-deploy
Setting up appium for real iOS devices involves a bunch more tricky steps you may need to solve after this one. Here is a tutorial I wrote just two weeks ago, so is probably the most up to date source right now:
