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How to get your device logs
lmarceau edited this page Oct 24, 2022
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- Have your phone connected to Xcode.
- Open the devices and simulator window under XCode menu
Window -> Devices and Simulator
. - Select your device in the side bar list.
- Click on
View Device Logs
. - Sort by processes to find Firefox related logs.
- Launch Firefox.
- Open Settings.
- Scroll down to
Version
and tap it several times. - Scroll down and hit "Debug: copy log files to app container". This triggers the logs to be saved into the Documents folder.
- Connect your device via USB.
- Open Xcode.
- Window > Devices. Choose your device.
- Find "Firefox" on the right side.
- Click the three dots icon, and choose "Download Container…". Save it somewhere you can find later. This saves a .xcappdata file.
- Locate the .xcappdata file you just saved and right-click on it to "Show Package Contents".
- Navigate to
AppData/Documents/Logs
, you have all the devices logs there.
Note that logs are currently separated in three categories:
- Sync to record what's happening with Sync, Accounts, Providers, Storage, and Profiles
- Browser to record what's happening in the front-end and the browser
- Keychain to record interactions with the keychain