The 'value' of 'getPasteboard' is always empty about webdriveragent HOT 11 CLOSED

Did you use it on simulators?
https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-xctest-pasteboard/index.html#mobile-getpasteboard

Perhaps, you can get/set the value if WDA was foreground (I haven't checked it, but we expected this works on simulators mainly)
appium/appium#11610

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Got it. Then, please ask their support team. I guess they have their own rule.
await this.driver.activateApp( 'com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner'); syntax seems good, but the bundle id depends on their environment.

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I haven't tried it on the simulator.

You're right, when WDA is foreground, I can get the content.

Thank you very much for your reply 🥳

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Did you use it on simulators?
https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-xctest-pasteboard/index.html#mobile-getpasteboard

Perhaps, you can get/set the value if WDA was foreground (I haven't checked it, but we expected this works on simulators mainly)
appium/appium#11610

Is this still accurate? I have tried both Activate App and Background App, clipboard still returns nothing.

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I think so.
I quickly checked on my env, 14.2 x iPhone SE 2nd Gen x Xcode 12.1 combination. It worked when WDA was foreground.

Afaik, if you enabled clipboard sync between other devices (Handoff feature), it could affect when you copy something on other devices.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253109/how-can-i-disable-universal-clipboard-on-macos-and-ios

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I think so.
I quickly checked on my env, 14.2 x iPhone SE 2nd Gen x Xcode 12.1 combination. It worked when WDA was foreground.

Afaik, if you enabled clipboard sync between other devices (Handoff feature), it could affect when you copy something on other devices.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253109/how-can-i-disable-universal-clipboard-on-macos-and-ios

Could you please share a code sample? I don't understand why something like this doesn't work:

async getClipboard() {
       try {
           const backgroundApp = this.driver.backgroundApp(10);
           while (backgroundApp) {
               const clipboard = await this.driver.getClipboard();
               console.log(clipboard);
               let buff = new Buffer(clipboard, 'base64');
               return buff.toString('ascii');
           }
       } catch (error) {
           assert.fail("Unable to get clipboard");
       }
   }

Switching to Settings doesn't work either. Clipboard will still be empty or undefined.

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You should bring WDA to your foreground. It looks like you brought your test app to the background, but you did not bring WDA to the foreground.

Instead of this.driver.backgroundApp(10);, you should do like below addressed in http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/device/clipboard/get-clipboard/#description

@driver.activate_app 'com.example.WebDriverAgentRunner'  # here should be your proper WDA bundle id
@driver.get_clipboard

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Oh, thanks! I'm using WebDriverIO, will investigate.

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Is this an Appium issue? None of these work, first line timeout, others just fail immediately:
await this.driver.activateApp(undefined, 'com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner');
await this.driver.activateApp(null, 'com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner');
await this.driver.activateApp( 'com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner');

Bundle ID appears correct based on start of Appium logs

[2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy] Got response with status 200: {
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]   "value" : {
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     "message" : "WebDriverAgent is ready to accept commands",
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     "state" : "success",
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     "os" : {
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "name" : "iOS",
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "version" : "13.3",
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "sdkVersion" : "12.0"
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     },
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     "ios" : {
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "simulatorVersion" : "13.3",
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "ip" : "192.168.11.159"
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     },
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     "ready" : true,
2020-11-16 13:59:49:293 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     "build" : {
2020-11-16 13:59:49:294 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "time" : "Oct 19 2020 15:53:00",
2020-11-16 13:59:49:294 - [debug] [WD Proxy]       "productBundleIdentifier" : "com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner"
2020-11-16 13:59:49:294 - [debug] [WD Proxy]     }
2020-11-16 13:59:49:294 - [debug] [WD Proxy]   },](url)

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The productBundleIdentifier depends on how you set the bundle id. It refers to updatedWDABundleId capability or the default bundle id (com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner). If you built/installed the WDA without updatedWDABundleId capability, then it might be the default value. Or if you use Xcode 11 or newer, probably it has .xctrunner suffix like com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner.xctrunner. Xcode 11+ do like this change automatically in some cases outside of Appium.

If you manually have changed the bundle id, you should set it as you did.

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This is on BrowserStack, I don't have to interact with WebDriverAgent, its set up automatically. I tried updatedWDABundle capability earlier also, setting a custom name and had same result as above.

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