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It is very hard to properly debug iOS bugs also.

"a problem repeatedly occurred" and page crashes all the time.

Only in Safari iOS 16. Worked in iOS 15. Works even in IE.

What kind of bug report can you make out of it?

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Attaching Safari Dev Tools from a Mac to the iOS device should surface those errors, in my experience.

This experience is wonderful in my opinion. It’s difficult to discover: you have to check Safari Settings > Advanced on your phone to enable it.

What if you don't have a Mac?

I was gonna say then how are you developing for iOS, but this is a website, so you’re right, it’s kinda ridiculous. OTOH if you’re a large enough website you should be testing on every platform.

Same should said to Apple.

They release new API but they "forgot" to test when website is added to home screen (PWA).

New API passes feature detection but does not work in PWA.

iOS and macOS Safari have different bugs also...

So you have to sniff user agent and other things to find out broken iOS versions and hardcode workarounds...

"Fuck you, buy a Mac." -Apple.

What if you don’t have Windows?

In either case, there are plenty of browser testing SaaS that give you real Mac/Win/Linux/iOS/Android machines for testing and debugging.

Microsoft offers free Windows 11 Virtual Machine files:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...

Microsoft Edge is available for both Mac and Linux.

No errors are shown when debugging this way.

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