Back to Appium Tutorial Index To be able to work with ios simulator we would need - Appium app to launch appium server and analyze application elements xCode to launch various simulators to run tests on emulator / or real devices Let’s begin with Appium app installation on mac - Appium app provides ready to run version of appium server. Install appium client and start appium server as described in following steps - Install latest Appium client for ios from - http://appium.io/downloads.html (You may have issues downloading this file from chrome, FF seems to work without issues) Once download is over then Control-click appium.dmg > open with > DiskImageMounter.app DMG is a apple disk image. The disk image will be mounted. Then look for the mounted disk image in your finder (cmd + space), It will appear there. Right click and open. You should also drag it to Applications folder so that you can search it in finder (command + tab) in future