safari developer tools ipad not showing

Want to highlight a helpful answer? Upvote!

Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others!  Learn more about when to upvote >

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

Show develop menu in menu bar ticked and greyed out

The 'show develop menu in menu bar' option is ticked in safari->preferences but it is greyed out and the develop menu is not showing in the menu bar

iMac, macOS 10.12

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 3:21 AM

Similar questions

• no menu bar on Safari how do I recover the menu bar in Safari? For no apparent reason, the menu bar simply disappeared. Can't see to recover it! How can I retrieve it? 719 1
• lost tool bar in safari Tool bar is missing from safari. When I click on view the toolbar choices are grayed out. Help 1030 2
• Safari Search Bar Missing While trying to add something to my toolbar, I somehow deleted the smart search bar. How can I get it back? 939 2

Loading page content

Page content loaded

Apr 8, 2022 7:26 AM in response to wqefqwe

Greetings, wqefqwe.

If you are not able to use developer tools in Safari, try to disable and reenable them.

“If you’re a web developer, the Safari Develop menu provides tools you can use to make sure your website works well with all standards-based web browsers.If you don’t see the Develop menu in the  menu bar , choose Safari > Preferences, click Advanced, then select “Show Develop menu in menu bar.””  Use the developer tools in the Develop menu in Safari on Mac 

Then, quit and relaunch Safari.  Quit apps on Mac - Apple Support

We hope this helps! 

• React Native

How to show Safari’s Develop menu and Web Inspector

( 7 Articles )

April 25, 2022

If you’re a web developer, then there might be cases where you want to debug and improve your website (or web app) on Safari (which takes approximately 19% of browser market share worldwide).

The steps below show you how to show Safari’s Develop menu and its web inspector tool.

1. Click on Safari on the top menu bar, then select Preferences…

2. Select the Advanced tab then check the checkbox labeled with “Show Develop menu in menu bar”:

3. Now the Develop menu appears. Open a website, click on Develop , and select Show Web Inspector (or Connect Web Inspector ) from the drop-down menu:

You can also use shortcuts: Command + Option + I .

Here’re Safari Dev Tools for web developers:

That’s it. Further reading:

• How to Easily Upgrade Node.js in macOS
• How to install Redis on macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu

Xcode: Change Derived Data and Archives directories

• VS Code: Opening Multiple Windows/Projects Simultaneously
• VS Code: Prevent Single-Child Folders from Being Merged

Happy coding and have a nice day!

Related Articles

How to Flush DNS Cache in macOS Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina

May 7, 2022

How to check your macOS version from Terminal

How to Download and Install an iOS Simulator in Xcode

How to check if Homebrew is installed on your Mac

April 20, 2022

How to completely uninstall Logitech Options on Mac

• Get One: Tornado Alert Apps
• The Best Tech Gifts Under $100

Add More Features by Turning on Safari's Develop Menu

Some of Safari's best features are hidden away

Tom Nelson is an engineer, programmer, network manager, and computer network and systems designer who has written for Other World Computing,and others. Tom is also president of Coyote Moon, Inc., a Macintosh and Windows consulting firm.

In This Article

Jump to a Section

Display the Develop Menu in Safari

Using the develop menu, additional develop menu items, what to know.

• Select Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop menu in menu bar .
• To use Develop, go to the Safari menu and select Develop , between Bookmarks and Window.
• Most useful Develop options: Open Page With, User Agent, and Empty Caches.

This article explains how to display and use the Develop menu in your Safari (versions 8 through 12) web browser.

Before you can use the Develop menu, you must first make the hidden menu visible. This is an easy task, much easier than revealing the Debug menu that—prior to Safari 4—contained all the commands that are now in the Develop menu. However, don't think that the older Debug menu is no longer relevant; it still exists and contains many useful tools.

Launch Safari from the Dock or the Mac Application folder.

Open Safari's preferences by clicking Safari in the menu bar and selecting Preferences in the drop-down menu.

Click the Advanced tab in the preferences screen.

Select Show Develop menu in menu bar .

Should you ever want to disable the Developer menu, remove the check mark in the Safari > Preferences > Advanced screen.

The Develop menu appears on the Safari menu bar between the Bookmarks and Window menu items. The Develop menu is particularly handy for web developers, but casual users may also find it useful.

Some of the Develop menu items that you're likely to find the most useful include:

• Open Page With : Lets you open the current web page in any browser you have installed on your Mac. If you ever visit a website that doesn't work correctly with Safari, use this command to quickly pop over to the same web page in another browser.
• User Agent : The user agent is a string of text the browser sends to the webserver hosting the web page. If you've ever visited a web page that proclaimed that Safari wasn't supported, this is how the site knew what browser you were using. In most cases, not supported is nonsense, and using this menu item, you can change the user agent to mimic one from a different browser. You may be amazed at how many times a web page that doesn't work suddenly does, just by changing the user agent.
• Empty Caches : Safari keeps a cache of recently accessed sites. The data stored away in this cache includes all the elements of a page, which can be used to quickly render a website when you return to the page. Sometimes the cache can be old or corrupt, causing a web page to display incorrectly. Emptying the cache can fix these issues and can even help speed up Safari .

Most of the remaining menu items are probably more useful to web developers, but if you're interested in how websites are constructed, then the following items may be of interest:

• Show Web Inspector : This opens the Web Inspector at the bottom of the current page. With the Web Inspector, you can examine the elements that went into creating the page.
• Show Page Source : This displays the HTML code of the current page.
• Show Page Resources : This opens the Resource Inspector sidebar in the Web Inspector. It provides an easy way to see which images, scripts, style sheets, and other elements are used on the current page.
• Start Timeline Recording : If you want to see how a web page loads and runs, try the Start Timeline Recording option. This creates a graph showing network activity and how each site element is loaded and used. It makes for an interesting display, but don't forget to turn off the feature by selecting Stop Timeline Recording . Otherwise, you are using your Mac's resources on nonproductive tasks—unless you're a web developer.
• Enter Responsive Design Mode : Another tool for web developers is the built-in simulator that allows you to preview how your web page will look at different screen resolutions or with different devices, such as the iPad or iPhone. Simply load the page you are interested in and select Enter Responsive Design Mode to preview the page. You can try the page rendering using various devices or select a screen resolution to use. When you're done, return to the Develop menu and select Exit Responsive Design Mode .
• Experimental Features : If you're feeling brave, you can try a few of the features that may find their way into future versions of the Safari browser.

With the Develop menu visible, take some time to try out the various menu items. You'll probably end up with a few favorites that you'll use often.

Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day

• How to Activate and Use Responsive Design Mode in Safari
• How to Reset Safari to Default Settings
• How to Activate the iPhone Debug Console or Web Inspector
• How to Enable Safari's Debug Menu to Gain Added Capabilities
• How to Use Web Browser Developer Tools
• How to View HTML Source in Safari
• How to View Internet Explorer Sites on a Mac
• How to Clear Internet Cache in Every Major Browser
• Speed Up Safari With These Tuneup Tips
• 8 Best Free HTML Editors for Windows for 2024
• How to Manage Cookies in the Safari Browser
• How to Manage the Top Sites Feature in Safari
• How to Inspect an Element on a Mac
• Keyboard Shortcuts for Safari on macOS
• What Is Safari?
• The Top 10 Internet Browsers for 2024

David Lozzi

• Debugging Safari/Chrome on your iPhone/iPad/iOS device

In the world of modern web development, Web 2.0 (or is it 3.0?), with HTML5, CSS3, ES6, and frameworks and libraries up the wazoo, our web apps and sites always work seamlessly and flawlessly across all the browsers and devices… hahaha, I know…

The reality is, web development, as great and modern as it is, can have little caveats and nuances across the different browsers: Chrome, Safari, FireFox, Edge, and the Mac/Windows/Linux/iOS/Android versions of each. Thankfully, the big contenders like Netscape (those were the days) and Internet Explorer have finally been deprecated and are no longer expected to be supported in the wild. Even with the great modern web, we still have issues once in a while.

In my recent efforts in troubleshooting one small “nuance” between Chrome on Mac and Chrome and Safari on iOS (yes, all three were acting differently), I needed to debug my browser on my iPad and/or iPhone. I won’t get into what the issue is here, instead, I’ll get into how we can debug the browsers on our iOS devices. I’ve searched for many options, some worked, some didn’t, so below is what worked for me.

All steps below are all running on my:

• MacBook Pro 16-inc, M1 Pro, running macOS Ventura 13.6
• iPad Air (4th) v15.3.1
• iPhone 14 Pro Max iOS v17.0.3

What are we debugging

Before we get started in debugging, we should cover what we’re debugging. In the following debugging methods, we can debug anything our browser can get to: netflix.com, google.com, or our public website. With CI/CD in place, I can make code changes and get them into my dev environment in under 5 minutes, and that suffices at times. I can then hit the site directly on my iPhone and debug as needed.

Sometimes, if I’m really diving into a granular issue and don’t want to wait, I like to use ngrok. Ngrok spins up a gateway from a public address to your local dev machine. This allows me to troubleshoot realtime on my mobile browser while writing the code on my laptop. It’s pretty slick and has saved me a lot of time. I can even share the ngrok address with my colleagues and they can access it on my local machine too! Another option would be to set up DNS for your iPhone to navigate to your laptop while on the same wifi network, and that’s not worth the effort in my book.

Debugging in Chrome on iOS

This is great quick way to check out your console messages without using your Mac.

• In Chrome on your iPad or iPhone, go to chrome://inspect and then press Start Logging .
• Now go do your thing in another tab, keeping this tab open.
• Come back anytime to see any and all console outputs!

See, no laptop/desktop needed, just do it on the mobile device.

This is as far as we can get with Chrome on iPhone/iPad. From my limited understanding, Chrome for iOS uses a WKWebView which gets difficult to actually attach to and debug. If the JavaScript console output isn’t enough, try Safari…

Debugging in Safari on iOS

This is a great method of debugging your iOS devices as it gives you the closest thing to actually debugging on your computer. With this method you can use the dev tools on your Mac to connect to your iOS Safari browser. It’s pretty sweet.

• On your Mac , open Safari, then go to Safari > Settings.
• Click Advanced and click Show Develop menu in menu bar at the bottom of the window. Close the window.
• On your iPad or iPhone , go to Settings > Safari > Advanced.
• Scroll to the bottom and enable Web Inspector .

For this next part, I recommend using a USB cable to attach your iOS device to your Mac. You might get away with doing this over Wifi, as I have in the past, but it’s not reliable .

• Connect your device to your Mac using a USB cable, or try the following over Wifi.
• On your Mac, in Safari, click the Develop menu.
• Near the top of the menu you should see your iPad or iPhone listed.
• Hover over your device in the menu and you’ll see Safari with each tab listed below. Click the one you want to debug.
• The Web Inspector should then appear, now debug it: Elements, Console, Sources, Network, all of it should work!

Good enough for now

Between these two techniques, I’ve been able to troubleshoot my issues quite successfully. Generally, iOS Safari and Chrome act relatively the same, so debugging in Safari helps me clear my Chrome issue. And if it doesn’t I can always throw in more console.log s and see what Chrome is actually doing. Ideally, we should be able to debug the code directly on Chrome, like we can do with Safari, but at this time it’s just not possible.

One other option, for a cost: inspect.dev

There’s a product called inspect.dev that boasts it can debug Safari, Webviews, and Chrome from macOS, Windows, and Linux. Learn more at https://inspect.dev/why . I have not tried them out, I don’t want to pay for something that should be free for developers (hence this blog post).

Let me know if you know other ways to debug your mobile browsers! Leave a comment below or let’s connect on Twitter .

‘Til next time, happy debugging!

Please share the love!

• Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
• Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
• Click to print (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)

7 thoughts on “ Debugging Safari/Chrome on your iPhone/iPad/iOS device ”

You should also check out using x-code’s simulator. Safari Dev Tools can attach to the Safari session on the simulator and you’re off to the races!

Oh yea, i just found that and then forgot that… thanks I’ll check it out closer and share my findings!

Thanks for article. One small correction Chrome for iOS uses WKWebView.

Thanks for the fix! will update

• Pingback: [FIXED] The image is taking the original dimentions of it on the phone after deployment - Learn How to FIX your angular code

Thanks bro! I’ll follow yours steps, wish me luck.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

• Collaboration
• Microsoft Forms
• Microsoft Planner
• Microsoft Power Apps
• Microsoft Power Automate (Flow)
• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft To-Do
• Office 365 Hybrid
• Office 365 SharePoint Online
• Productivity
• SharePoint 2013 Administration
• SharePoint 2013 Apps
• SharePoint 2013 Development
• SP2010 Administration
• SP2010 Authentication
• SP2010 Customization
• SP2010 Infrastructure
• SP2010 User
• SP2010 Workaround
• Uncategorized
• Users Don't Like SharePoint

Top Posts & Pages

• Use Microsoft Forms to collect data right into your Excel file
• Saving data from Microsoft Forms into Excel using Power Automate (Flow)
• Showing users' profile pictures in a SharePoint list
• Sending a beautifully formatted email from Power Automate (Flow)
• Understanding Power Automate's Outlook Send Email Actions
• Style up your console.logs
• Use Microsoft Flow to remind the Team of due dates from Planner
• Squeezing a little more formatting out of Microsoft Forms
• Zoom Backgrounds: More Fun
• Stack Overflow

• 2,081,416 hits

Discover more from David Lozzi

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Type your email…

Continue reading

Safari User Guide

• Change your homepage
• Import bookmarks, history, and passwords
• Make Safari your default web browser
• Go to websites
• Find what you’re looking for
• Bookmark webpages that you want to revisit
• See your favorite websites
• Use tabs for webpages
• Pin frequently visited websites
• Play web videos
• Mute audio in tabs
• Pay with Apple Pay
• Autofill credit card info
• Autofill contact info
• Keep a Reading List
• Hide ads when reading articles
• Translate a webpage
• Download items from the web
• Share or post webpages
• Add passes to Wallet
• Save part or all of a webpage
• Print or create a PDF of a webpage
• Customize a start page
• Customize the Safari window
• Customize settings per website
• Zoom in on webpages
• Get extensions
• Manage cookies and website data
• Block pop-ups
• Clear your browsing history
• Browse privately
• Autofill user name and password info
• Prevent cross-site tracking
• View a Privacy Report
• Change Safari preferences
• Keyboard and other shortcuts
• Troubleshooting

Use the developer tools in the Develop menu in Safari on Mac

If you’re a web developer, the Safari Develop menu provides tools you can use to make sure your website works well with all standards-based web browsers.

If you don’t see the Develop menu in the menu bar, choose Safari > Preferences, click Advanced, then select “Show Develop menu in menu bar.”

Open Safari for me

How-To Geek

How to turn on the develop menu in safari on mac.

The Develop menu lets you view page source in Safari on Mac.

Quick Links

How to enable the develop menu in safari on mac, how to view page source in safari on mac.

When you right-click on any web page in Safari on Mac, it doesn't reveal the Show Page Source and Inspect Element buttons. To see these, you need to enable the Develop menu---we'll show you how to do that.

Once you've enabled the Develop menu, right-clicking a blank space on any website will reveal the Inspect Element and Show Page Source buttons. These allow you to take a look at the source code of any website, which is useful for things like downloading images from websites and debugging code or finding out what it looks like behind any site (for website designers).

You can easily turn on the Develop menu in Safari by following a couple of steps. Open Safari on your Mac and click the "Safari" button in the menu bar.

Next, select "Preferences." Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command+, (comma). This will also open up Safari preferences.

Go to the "Advanced" tab.

Check the box for "Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar."

Now the Develop menu will appear between Bookmarks and Window at the top.

Apart from being able to view the page source, this will allow you to access developer-focused features, such as disabling JavaScript on any website.

Once you've enabled the Develop menu, there are a couple of ways to view the page source in Safari.

Open any website in Safari and right-click the blank space on the page. Now, select "Show Page Source." You can also get to this menu by using the keyboard shortcut Option+Command+u.

If you're looking for images or other media elements from any web page, Safari makes it easy to find these. In the left-hand pane, you will see various folders such as Images, Fonts, etc. Click the "Images" folder to quickly find the photos that you need.

After selecting an image, you can view its details easily by opening up the details sidebar. The button to open this is located at the top-right of the console, just below the gear icon. You can also open this with the shortcut Option+Command+0.

Click "Resource" at the top of the details sidebar to view details, such as the size of the image and its full URL.

You can change the position of the page source console easily, too. There are two buttons at the top-left of this console, right next to the X button. Click the rectangle icon to move the console to a different side within the browser window.

If you'd like to open the page source console in a separate window, you can click the two-rectangles icon. This will detach the console and open it in a separate window.

To check out the code for any specific element on the page, you can right-click that element and select "Inspect Element." This will take you directly to the code for the element that you selected.

Whenever you're done looking at the code, click the X button to close the page source console and return to browsing on Safari. You can also check out how to view a website's page source in Google Chrome  here.

Related: How to View the HTML Source in Google Chrome