Please add Paste from Other apps Permission

[Daha62]

Description

There is no way to automatically allowed to paste from CoreSimulatorBrigde to an app, also there is no way to do it through xcrun simctl, and no way to do it through applesimutils

Your environment

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Test-runner (select one): jest / other

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@asafkorem wdyt?

[asafkorem]

Hey @Daha62,
Since there's no way to do that with Xcrun simctl or ASU it might be complicated to implement (requires research). However, it will be easier to do when we'll introduce system dialogs interaction support on Detox v21.

Can you please elaborate what it the use case?
Do you have a cross-apps scenario that you're testing?

[Daha62]

Was trying to inspect the reason of this alert, but unsuccessfully. Also had some thoughts about xCode version (but it doesn't matter).
Tried to review tests, but I don't have any copy/paste actions. It appears randomly on ios simulator (16.2), detox version is 20.10.0

[patriciazumo]

Hi @asafkorem,

I'm trying to interact with this dialog by using https://wix.github.io/Detox/docs/next/api/system#tap, with Detox 20.23, but without success.
I tried:

1. system.element(by.system.label('Allow Paste')).tap()
2. system.element(by.system.type('button')).atIndex(1).tap()

and also tried these (which I think that don't make much sense but it didn't hurt to try):

1. system.element(by.system.label('Allow')).tap()
2. system.element(by.system.label('Allow Paste')).atIndex(0).tap()

Can you spot anything I'm doing wrong? 🙏

[patriciazumo]

In addition to my previous comment, is there any news regarding adding this permission?

In my case, I need to test a flow where there's a button that pastes a string, which is not human readable text like a very long ID, that the user copied from some other app (like a chat app, a reminder note, etc.).
So in my case, I'm using execSync(echo ${theStringToBePasted} | pbcopy, { stdio: 'inherit' }) to copy the string to the Clipboard and then tap the mentioned button to paste it.

[Daha62]

also tried system.element but without success (Detox 20.22.2)