Neil Macy

Using Safari Web Inspector with web views in iOS apps.

Quick one: if you need to use a web view in your app (we all love native UI, but it happens!), you can use Safari to debug it.

Here's the documentation, I found it really simple to set up and very helpful.

If you have a SFSafariViewController, integration is enabled by default. If you have a WKWebView you need to make it inspectable, and in most cases it's as simple as this:

myWKWebView.isInspectable = true




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Published on 18 March 2026