Appium can't locate & access elements using accessibility id attribute on IOS

Question

The automation tests used to work until recently (~ one month ago). The issue is that the elements are not located when using Appium inspect element tool and also when tests are running on IOS.

Accessibility ID selector is shown in Appium inspect tool, but when you try to search for the element using the same selector, element is not found.

NOTE: Using 'content-desc' for the same elements works fine on Android.

Any idea how to solve this issue?

Dependencies:

Appium v.1.18.3
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"selenium-appium": "0.0.15",
"selenium-webdriver": "4.0.0-alpha.7",

App dependencies:

"react": "16.13.1",
"react-content-loader": "^5.1.0",
"react-native": "0.63.3",
"react-native-background-timer": "^2.2.0",
"react-native-config": "^1.3.1",

Answer 1

As I know this issue occurs when you simply copy paste accessibility id from list and paste in id seach box.

Check my below observation

1.Simply copy and paste the id which includes space before id.

Result-:

2. Now remove early space before id . Please check screenshot for same id as below

Hope I have cleared your doubt