Enable Developer Mode on iOS 16

Be able to use your iPhone as development device in iOS 16

Apple introduce in iOS 16 a new developer mode that is disabled by default. The developer mode was created in order to better protect the majority of the users as most of them will never need the developer mode. But as a developer, you clearly want to use your own device for doing development, and for doing this you will need to activate the Developer Mode.

Important considerations, for enabling the developer mode the phone will need to be restarted, but then it will persist until you disabled it again.

Activate developer mode manually

The Developer Mode toggle is hidden inside your settings. You can find it inside the following path:

Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer mode

Just activate the toggle, the device will restart and you will be good to go.

Activate developer mode from the command line on the device without a passcode

Doing the activation on your personal device is quite easy but what about activating it on all the devices that you are using for testing. For doing this it is really easy, just plug it on your mac and run this command line.

devmodectl streaming

It will activate the developer mode and restart the device for you. Remember that it will only work for devices without a passcode.