Debugging Obsidian Mobile Plugins with Safari Web Inspector

Stop Wasting Hours Debugging Obsidian Mobile Plugins

My Obsidian plugin was crashing on my iPhone. No logs, no error messages... nothing (since Obsidians tracking policy). I was coding blind, I even tried getting ChatGPT to guess the bug.

Felt pretty stupid after hours of this. 😅

Then my brain rebooted and remembered: Obsidian on mobile is just a web view.
You can plug your phone into a Mac and use Safari's Web Inspector to debug it.

The error was right there in the console. Took 5 min to fix.

It is not very well-known and I wish I knew this before. 🔥

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