iOS8 iPhone 5 Mobile Safari cannot be inspected by Desktop Safari 7.0.6 .. "No Inspectable Applications"

Question

I'm trying to debug a website on my iPhone. I used to be able to just connect the iPhone to my Mac and open up Safari. I'd click "Develop" and see my phone in that menu, then I could see each of my open Mobile Safari tabs from there.

Now, with iOS8 it no longer shows the open tabs on my Mobile Safari and instead of my open tabs I get "No Inspectable Applications".

I've made sure that Web Inspector is enabled.

Settings > Safari > Advanced > Web Inspector is on.

I'm not trying to open the 'tab' in private mode.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or is this a bug with Apple?

Also, for what it's worth, I've reset both my phone and desktop, reset both safaris. Unplugged and reconnected the cable... I'm at a loss.

Answer 1

Updating to Safari 7.1 (available in App Store updates today, September, 18 2014) on OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) enables remote debugging with iOS 8 Safari.

You don't need Yosemite.

Answer 2

I found out that iOS 8 Mobile Safari can only be inspected by Safari 8 on the Mac. Safari 8 comes with Mac OSX Yosemite (which is in beta right now). Or, I guess you can get it by downloading the latest nightly build of Safari found here: http://nightly.webkit.org

Update: Now that Safari 7.1 has been released for OSX Mavericks, you can download it and it will work with iOS 8.

Answer 3

I just realized in iOS 8 that there's a setting in Safari under advanced that allows for the Web Inspector to work. I don't remember that in 7 but it may have been there. That made everything start working for me.