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title: Handling Permission Popups with Appium | TestingBot
description: How to deal with user-permission dialogs during Appium testing on iOS
  and Android.
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# Handling permission pop-ups

While testing your mobile app, it may ask for specific permissions during the test. Various system dialogs or popups may appear, asking the user to grant access.   
 The mobile app might ask the user permission to access the contacts, notifications, media, ... on the device.

Below we'll go over the various techniques to handle these events during your mobile testing:

- [Allow or Deny all permissions](https://testingbot.com#allPermissions)
- [Allow or Deny specific permissions](https://testingbot.com#specificPermissions)

## Allow or Deny all permissions

Appium allows you to automatically accept all permission and alert requests.

### Allow or Deny all permissions on Android

You can use the `autoGrantPermissions` capability.

Appium will inspect the [Android Manifest](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro) of the app, extract the required permissions and grant these.

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```ruby
caps["appium:autoGrantPermissions"] = true
```

```java
options.setCapability("appium:autoGrantPermissions", true);
```

```python
capabilities = {
  "appium:autoGrantPermissions": True
}
```

```javascript
const capabilities = {
    "appium:autoGrantPermissions": true
}
```

```csharp
options.AddAdditionalAppiumOption("appium:autoGrantPermissions", true);
```

### Allow or Deny all permissions on iOS

On iOS, Appium offers two capabilities which you can use: `autoAcceptAlerts` and `autoDismissAlerts`.

`autoAcceptAlerts` will automatically accept (grant) any alerts (including permission popups) that might appear during your test.   
`autoDismissAlerts` will automatically dismiss (deny) any alerts (including permission popups) that might appear during your test.

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```ruby
caps["appium:autoAcceptAlerts"] = true # to accept all alerts
caps["appium:autoDismissAlerts"] = true # to dismiss all alerts
```

```java
options.setCapability("appium:autoAcceptAlerts", true); // to accept all alerts
options.setCapability("appium:autoDismissAlerts", true); // to dismiss all alerts
```

```python
# Set one of the following capabilities:
capabilities["appium:autoAcceptAlerts"] = True # to accept all alerts
capabilities["appium:autoDismissAlerts"] = True # to dismiss all alerts
```

```javascript
// Set one of the following capabilities:
capabilities["appium:autoAcceptAlerts"] = true; // to accept all alerts
capabilities["appium:autoDismissAlerts"] = true; // to dismiss all alerts
```

```csharp
options.AddAdditionalAppiumOption("appium:autoAcceptAlerts", true); // to accept all alerts
options.AddAdditionalAppiumOption("appium:autoDismissAlerts", true); // to dismiss all alerts
```

### Customizing the alert button selector

There may be dialogs that appear during your automated tests which have 3 buttons instead of 2, or there's a specific button you want to press instead of the default (allow) button.

In this case, you might want to consider using the `acceptAlertButtonSelector` Appium setting, which allows you to pass a selector (a [class-chain expression](https://github.com/facebookarchive/WebDriverAgent/wiki/Class-Chain-Queries-Construction-Rules)) to tell Appium which button to click.

For example, you might want to click the 'Allow Once' button in a location permission dialog. To instruct Appium to do this, you can change the `acceptAlertButtonSelector` setting during your test:

```javascript
driver.updateSettings({
    acceptAlertButtonSelector: "**/XCUIElementTypeButton[`label CONTAINS[c] 'Allow Once'`]"
});
```

Alternatively, you can set this setting at the beginning of your test with a capability:

```javascript
const capabilities = {
  "appium:settings": {
    "acceptAlertButtonSelector": "**/XCUIElementTypeButton[`label CONTAINS[c] 'Allow Once'`]"
  }
}
```

## Allow or Deny specific permissions

You can also choose to accept or deny alerts and popups during your test.   
 Your test will need to find the element of the alert or popup and perform a `click` action on that element.

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```ruby
# For Android
driver.find_element(:xpath, ".//android.widget.Button[@text='Allow']").click
# For iOS
driver.find_element(:id, "Allow").click
```

```java
// For Android
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//android.widget.Button[@text='Allow']")).click();
// For iOS
driver.findElement(By.id("Allow")).click();
```

```python
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# For Android
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, ".//android.widget.Button[@text='Allow']").click()
# For iOS
driver.find_element(By.ID, "Allow").click()
```

```javascript
// For Android
const element = await driver.$(".//android.widget.Button[@text='Allow']");
await element.click();
// For iOS
const allowBtn = await driver.$("#Allow");
await allowBtn.click();
```

```csharp
// For Android
IWebElement ll = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//android.widget.Button[@text='Allow']"));
ll.Click();
// For iOS
IWebElement ll = driver.FindElement(By.Id("Allow"));
ll.Click();
```

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