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Trying to debug a website on an iPad, but the device doesn’t appear on the Design menu in Safari on my Mac

According to the instructions of the iOS Developer Library Debugging, it should be possible to debug the website in Mobile Safari (on iOS 6) remotely from the Safari desktop via a regular USB connection. But after completing the described steps (I turn on the web inspector on the iPad, connect it via USB to my Mac, turn on the preferences form in the "Create menu" menu). I still don't see the device item in the Design menu on the Safari desktop. Is there any other important requirement for this? Maybe the smallest version of Mac OS X? I have 10.6.8.

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It turns out that remote debugging support was added only in Safari 6, which for some inexplicable reason is not available for Snow Leopard, only for Lion (in the limited version) and higher. So I bought an upgrade to Mountain Lion, and it just works now.

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Apple wants to force developers to switch to the recent OSX (bundled with the latest developer tools).

But there is a working way to debug iOS6 + Safari for developers using OSX 10.6.8 / Windows / whatever:

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It works great as an official. Perhaps Apple took this project to debug them (just a hunch).

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In Safari settings for iOS, there is an option under advanced, which allows you to switch "Web Inspector", which turns this feature on and off (at least this is on iOS 6, I do not have older devices to check this).

There is also a limitation that:

Important. You can only check applications on devices ported to your device with Xcode. You cannot check applications downloaded from the App Store, even if this is your application.

Therefore, I expect developer apps to be the only ones you can manipulate in this way.

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