Local Testing of iOS Devices using PDA

  • Updated on Oct 28, 2025
  • Published on Mar 10, 2023
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Overview:

This documentation will help you with the steps to connect to iOS devices from your local maching using the iOS Tunnel feature on the Pcloudy Desktop Application (PDA). Incase you haven't downloaded or installed the PDA on your system or need help with the installation please click here.

This feature allows you to connect an iOS device virtually to your local machine and use it to debug from any IDE (Eclipse, XCode, etc).

Prerequisite

  • Users should have already downloaded and installed the PDA application on their system
  • Users should be registered on the pCloudy platform.

iOS Tunnel

Note: iOS tunnel can be used only on Mac machine. It is not supported on Windows/Linux OS.

Steps

  1. Connect to your desired iOS device.

  2. On the PDA Application, ensure that your User name, Access Key, Cloud URL, etc are filled in and click on the "Arrow button".

  3. While launching the PDA application If user gets a popup. Follow below mentioned steps-:

    1. Goto Settings(System Preference) and Navigate to Security&Privacy.
    2. In Security&Privacy under General tab user will find the pcloudy-desktop-assistant under Allow apps downloaded from.
    3. Select the button open anyway
    4. Select open on the next prompt.
    5. If user wish to use iOS tunnel feature,the PDA app needs to be launched from command line
      sudo /Applications/(application-name).app/Contents/MacOS/(application-name)

  4. On the PDA App Click on the "Wildnet Tab" and Click "Activate".

  5. Once the Wildnet is activated, the red dot on the tab will turn green, indicating that the Wildnet/Local Testing is now enabled.

  6. The user can go to the iOS device that is connected on the plaform and click on "Local Testing" on the right panel.

  7. Click on "Enable Local Testing", you will see a notification once the local testing is enabled.

  8. Now you can connect to your local websites on the iOS device by using the Keyboard function.