Run react-native application on iOS device directly from command line

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Is it possible to run react-native application on an iOS device directly from the command line like we do on simulator with react-native run ios --simulator  iPhone 5s

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First install the required library globally on your computer  npm install -g ios-deploy  Go to your settings on your iPhone to find the name of the device  Then provide that below like  react-native run-ios --device  quot         s iPhone quot   Sometimes this will fail and output a message like this  Found Xcode project          xcodeproj Could not find device with the name   quot         s iPhone quot   Choose one of the following           s iPhone Udid             That udid is used like this  react-native run-ios --udid 0412e2c230a14e23451699  Optionally you may use  react-native run-ios --udid 0412e2c230a14e23451699 -- configuration Release

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Run this command in project root directory   1   List of iPhone devices for found the connected Real Devices and Simulator  same as like adb devices command for android   xcrun instruments -s devices   2   Select device using this command which you want to run your app   Using Device Name  react-native run-ios --device  Kool s iPhone    Using UDID  react-native run-ios --device --udid 0412e2c2      51699   wait and watch to run your app in specific devices - K00L

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If you get this error ios-deploy x x x preinstall    src scripts check reqs js  amp  amp  xcodebuild     using npm install -g ios-deploy  Try this  It works for me    sudo npm uninstall -g ios-deploy brew install ios-deploy

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The following worked for me  tested on react native 0 38 and 0 40    npm install -g ios-deploy   Run on a connected device  e g  Max s iPhone  react-native run-ios --device  Max s iPhone    If you try to run run-ios  you will see that the script recommends to do npm install -g ios-deploy when it reach install step after building    While the documentation on the various commands that react-native offers is a little sketchy  it is worth going to react-native local-cli  There  you can see all the commands available and the code that they run - you can thus work out what switches are available for undocumented commands

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Just wanted to add something to Kamil s answer   After following the steps  I still got an error      error Could not find device with the name        s Xr    After removing special characters from the device name  Go to Settings -  General -  About -  Name      Eg      It Worked    Hope this will help someone who faced similar issue   Tested with -  react-native-cli  2 0 1   react-native  0 59 8   VSCode 1 32   Xcode 10 2 1   iOS 12 3

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Got mine working with react-native run-ios --device  quot My   s iPhone quot   And notice that your iphone name  the apostrophe s   might be different  Mine is using this

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Actually  For the first build  please do it with Xcode and then do the following way    brew install ios-deploy npx react-native run-ios --device   The second command will run the app on the first connected device

[ios] Run react-native application on iOS device directly from command line?

First install the required library globally on your computer:

Go to your settings on your iPhone to find the name of the device.

Then provide that below like:

Sometimes this will fail and output a message like this:

That udid is used like this:

Optionally you may use:

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