The most elegant way to view and debug JavaScript errors in your Cordova/PhoneGap App is by attaching the Web Inspector from your Safari browser to the Web View in your iOS App (but, like Tom Clarkson already mentioned, you will need at least iOS 6).
- On your iPad or iPhone use the Settings App to enable Web Inspector in the Advanced Settings for Safari
- Connect your device to a Mac via USB (it will then appear under the Develop menu of Safari)
- Start your App
- Navigate to the Web View you want to debug
- On the Mac, from the Safari Develop menu, select the name of your device and the App (its HTML-page), from its sub menu
- A Web Inspector window will open, enabling you to browse the DOM, set breakpoints etc.
Apples documentation on setting this up
A thorough third party tutorial
Alternatively you could connect Chrome’s Web Inspector to iOS devices after installing iOS WebKit Debug Proxy. This also opens up the ability to do the inspection from Linux or Windows.
Remote access to your iOS’s HTML, CSS and JavaScript has gotten even more flexible nowadays because you can install the RemoteDebug iOS WebKit Adapter on top of aforementioned Debug Proxy. Because this adapter translates the WebKit Remote Debugging Protocol to the Chrome Debugging Protocol, these (on all their supported platforms) become available as alternative debugging and inspection tools:
- Visual Studio Code
- Chrome DevTools
- Mozilla Debugger
BTW, remote debugging with the Safari Web Inspector works even in combination with the iOS Simulator.
Minimum version of Desktop Safari per iOS version
For each version of iOS you will need a specific minimum version of Desktop Safari in order to use remote web inspection, see the list below.
- iOS 6
- Safari 6+
- iOS 7
- Safari 6.1+
- iOS 8
- Safari 7.1+
- iOS 9
- Safari 8+
- iOS 10
- Safari 9+/10+? Please comment; always try Safari Technology Preview
- iOS 11
- Safari 11+
- iOS 12
- Safari 12+
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