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We've had some cases on our devicecloud runners where mid-test the VM restarts and causes the test to fail. I got onto the devicecloud team and got the following advice:
Thanks for flagging this.
It's a known performance issue for newer iOS simulator builds.
In the short term, there's a couple of options:
- try different sims/OS versions, iPhone 16 + iOS 18 has been working well for us internally
- add the --retry 2 flag to the CLI to enable automatic retries, this helps counteract flakiness issues
In the medium term, we started the process of upgrading our iOS infrastructure and there's always a chance of a patch from Apple!