Google Chrome remote debug with IOS iPhone (Safari) to Windows PC

Miroslav Maksimovic
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
1 min readMay 21, 2020

Ever wondered how to debug your website with chrome dev tools using your real device, here are the steps to give it a try:

  1. Download iTunes
  2. Connect the IOS device with your Windows PC by USB cable and click Trust this device.
  3. Install Scoop for Windows:
  4. Run Windows Power Shell as administrator and then install these:
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install ios-webkit-debug-proxy
npm install remotedebug-ios-webkit-adapter -g

5. Open iOS Settings => Safari preferences => enable “Web Inspector”

6. In Power Shell run this command:

remotedebug_ios_webkit_adapter --port=9000

7. Open Chrome and navigate to this:

chrome://inspect/#devices

You will see this and you can click on inspect inside label with RemoteDebug IOS adapter.

8. Click on configure and set localhost:9000

Now we are able to debug the chrome website on our IOS device.

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Miroslav Maksimovic
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Software Engineer, passionate knowledge transferer, writer for The Startup, largest publication @Medium with over 700k followers