When testing on iOS 13 and 14 in Safari using Appium, we launch a simple web page with some divs that have a hover effect. Clicking on the div should activate the hover effect on mobile devices. This happens when we exectue the click manually. But the command session/some_session_id/element/some_element_id/click does not trigger a hover effect. A simple html page for reproducing the behavior can be found below. Issue was reported already 3 years ago: https://discuss.appium.io/t/invoke-hover-state-in-safari-ios/22853 Steps to reproduce the behavior: <head> <style> .test1 { display: flex; width: 200px; height: 50px; background-color: yellow; } .test2 { display: flex; width: 100px; height: 25px; background-color: red; } .test2:hover { background-color: green; } .test1:hover { background-color: blue; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="test1" onclick="void(0)"> Test 1 <div class="test2" id="test" onclick="void(0)"> Test 2 </div> </div> </body> Appium logs 2021-08-17 06:57:24:714 - [HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session/some_session_id/element/5000/click 2021-08-17 06:57:24:715 - [HTTP] {} 2021-08-17 06:57:24:715 - [debug] [MJSONWP (2cd46df3)] Calling AppiumDriver.click() with args: ["5000","2cd46df3-26e9-4f35-afd7-d2dce67967fe"] 2021-08-17 06:57:24:715 - [debug] [XCUITest] Executing command 'click' 2021-08-17 06:57:24:716 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Executing atom 'click' with 'args=[{"ELEMENT":":wdc:1629183444508"}]; frames=' 2021-08-17 06:57:24:724 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Executing 'click' atom in default context 2021-08-17 06:57:24:724 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Sending javascript command: '(function(){return function(){var h,aa=this;fun...' 2021-08-17 06:57:24:725 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Sending '_rpc_forwardSocketData:' message to app 'PID:3360', page '1', target 'page-35' (id: 170): 'Runtime.evaluate' 2021-08-17 06:57:24:781 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Received data response from send (id: 170): '"{"status":0,"value":null}"' 2021-08-17 06:57:24:781 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Sending to Web Inspector took 57ms 2021-08-17 06:57:24:781 - [debug] [RemoteDebugger] Received result for atom 'click' execution: null 2021-08-17 06:57:24:782 - [debug] [MJSONWP (2cd46df3)] Responding to client with driver.click() result: null 2021-08-17 06:57:24:783 - [HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/some_session_id/element/5000/click 200 68 ms - 76
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