Picking an image from the gallery does not work in iOS 26

[yolpsoftware]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues and didn't find mine.

Steps to reproduce

Picking an image from the gallery stopped working in iOS 26 on iPad simulators. This was already reported here mobile-dev-inc/Maestro#2813.

• Reproduction: navigate to the image chooser on an iPad simulator
• Open maestro studio (old version, in-browser).
• It just shows one big clickable area:

Since this problem is not only in the old Maestro Studio, but also in my actual tests, I assume it has nothing to do with me still using the old Studio.

Actual results

There's no way to choose an image via Maestro.

Expected results

There should be a way to choose an image. There is one on the iPhone, and there was one on the iPad prior to iOS 26.

About app

Problem is readily reproducible with maestro studio, no app needed.

About environment

java -version
openjdk version "21.0.7" 2025-04-15 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-21.0.7+6 (build 21.0.7+6-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-21.0.7+6 (build 21.0.7+6-LTS, mixed mode, sharing)

macOS Tahoe 26.2, M4 CPU arm64

Logs

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Maestro version

2.1.0

How did you install Maestro?

Homebrew

Anything else?

No response

[linear]

MAE-384

[Fishbowler]

I'm on mobile right now, but when I'm on a proper computer, I'll pop this issue over to our Docs repo

[diegoulloao]

Have you found a solution? Same issue here.

[yolpsoftware]

No solution yet except running the tests against an iPad simulator that uses iOS 18 or lower.

[StasKeiss]

Any update on this? Using Appium Inspector you can see the elements correctly but Maestro's inspector doesn't see them at all.

[Fishbowler]

@StasKeiss You're commenting on a documentation issue, right? About a recipe in the docs.

[yolpsoftware]

@Fishbowler This isn't just a documentation issue. Every app scenario that uses the iOS image picker can't currently be tested on iPads.

The doc link I provided in the description is just to illustrate that this is a scenario that was working some time ago.

If there is a workaround, then please let us know.

[Fishbowler]

We don't control the the application under test. Has anyone performed any diagnostics, e.g. Accessibility Inspector?

[yolpsoftware]

You don't control the image picker, but you have a "recipe" in your docs about it. So I'd say it's pretty generic as a use case of Maestro.

I haven't performed any diagnostics using Accessibility Inspector, but I have used Maestro Studio to try to find a solution, see original post.

[StasKeiss]

@Fishbowler Hey, I'll open a proper PR to fix this issue on the main branch. Docs would need to be updated accordingly once it is merged.