How to handle location popups in Appium

Sometimes when the app/browser under test gets launched for the first time, it displays a Location permission popup or some other popups. Appium has a simple solution to solve this problem, you can use a desired capability specifically designed to handle these alerts.We can handle/ignore these popups by passing the capabilities to Appium driver.

You can either always accept or always dismiss the alerts with these desired capabilities:

Handle popups with capabilities:

• autoAcceptAlertsAccept - All iOS alerts automatically accept if they pop up. This includes privacy access permission alerts (e.g., location, contacts, photos). Default is false
• safariAllowPopups - (Sim-only) Allow javascript to open new windows in Safari. Default keeps current sim setting
• safariIgnoreFraudWarning - (Sim-only) Prevent Safari from showing a fraudulent website warning. Default keeps current sim setting

       DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

       capabilities.setCapability("safariAllowPopups", true);

       capabilities.setCapability("safariIgnoreFraudWarning", true);

       capabilities.setCapability("autoAcceptAlerts", true);

Handle popups with Webdriver Alert :

Another way to handle alerts with Webdriver Alert(), 

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 1 /*timeout in seconds*/);

int waitTime =0;

while(waitTime <6){

try {

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());
 driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

 } catch (Exception eTO) {
 }
    waitTime ++;
}