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title: Inspecting the Purple Experience in iOS apps
slug: experience/inspecting-the-purple-experience-in-ios-apps
description: Inspecting the Purple Experience in iOS apps for App Analytics
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createdAt: 2024-02-16T10:32:59.537Z
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It is only possible to inspect preview apps. Release apps will **not** be listed for inspection in the Safari develop menu.
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On iOS, apps can only be installed on devices if they were built with a provisioning profile which includes the given devices.
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## One time setup

Enabling the web inspector by enabling the develop menu in Safari on mac OS and in the Safari settings on the iOS device, see [https://webkit.org/web-inspector/enabling-web-inspector/](https://webkit.org/web-inspector/enabling-web-inspector/) for more details.

## Opening the dev tools of views on mobile devices

1. Connect the iOS device with the mac OS device
2. Open Safari on the mac OS device
3. Select the Develop menu
4. Select the iOS device
5. Select a web view on this device

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For more detailed logs, you may enable the debug logs: In developer console, execute `localStorage.setItem("purple.debug.logs", "a")`
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