Hello Apples,
Noticed that after iOS 26.1 update the Xcode simulator seems to be prompting to login with Apple ID arbitrarily while working on some UI tests.
This does not happen with previous iOS 26.0 or 26.0.1 but is now causing trouble when launching the app or uninstalling at teardown. The current other issue with the uninstallation being sticky and taking a long time (waiting for springboard to become idle) is not helping either.
The dialog seems to appear a bit unreliably to be able to handle it correctly. Have tried both manual springboard dialog mapping and handling as well as an interruption monitor. The latter only seems to work for the first dialog which appears but then ceases to function so not much help…
Anyone else seeing this and are there any knowledge or good workarounds? Or should we just roll back to testing with previous OS versions and cross fingers for iOS 26.2?
Bottom line we cannot login with an Apple ID while running tests on a simulator…
As bonus noticed the simulator background images are not working?
Thanks!
BR,
ARu_ (Senior QE)