Exploratory testing
Ask an agent to walk through a mobile flow, notice blocked states, and keep going when the UI differs from the happy path.
Use case
AI mobile QA testing on real iPhones
TapKit lets QA and product teams run AI-assisted tests on physical iPhones, so agents can inspect the real screen, operate the app, move across mobile workflows, and leave a trace of what happened.
Surface
Real iOS apps
Test the app and account state users actually touch, including flows that depend on App Store distribution or third-party apps.
Tester
AI agent
Let the agent explore, verify, recover, and report against the current screen instead of only replaying a brittle script.
Evidence
Sessions
Use screenshots, streams, and timeline events to understand exactly what the agent saw and did.
Why real devices
Some mobile bugs only exist on the phone users actually hold
Simulators and scripted tests are valuable, but mobile QA often breaks at the boundaries: permissions, notifications, payment prompts, files, messages, links, app switching, and account recovery.
Those flows are exactly where an AI agent can help. It can look at the current screen, decide what to try next, and document the path it took through the phone.
TapKit provides the real-device control layer so the agent is testing the same kind of iPhone experience a customer sees.
Workflows
QA jobs TapKit can help with
Cross-app verification
Validate workflows that jump from your app into Messages, Mail, Settings, Files, web views, or third-party apps.
Account and permissions checks
Exercise login, onboarding, notification prompts, privacy prompts, device settings, and recovery flows on a real phone.
Human review
Watch the session, interrupt it, inspect the timeline, and turn the run into a bug report or regression note.
Fit
When AI-assisted mobile QA makes sense
- Your test depends on the production app experience, not just a local simulator build.
- Your QA team needs coverage for third-party apps, account state, notifications, or verification prompts.
- Your flows are too dynamic for selector-only scripts but still need repeatable evidence.
- You want agents to expand coverage without replacing deterministic regression tests.
How teams use it
Keep deterministic tests and add agentic coverage
TapKit is not a replacement for every unit test, integration test, or deterministic Appium suite. Those should keep covering stable paths your team can assert directly.
The useful addition is coverage for workflows that require judgment: unusual state, unexpected UI, multiple apps, changing copy, or real account behavior. The agent can explore those paths and generate evidence for a human to review.