# Maestro -- Re-Building the iOS Driver

DevFeed: [Maestro -- Re-Building the iOS Driver](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/maestro-re-building-the-ios-driver-22909.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://maestro.dev/blog/maestro-re-building-the-ios-driver>)

Author: Amanjeet Singh

Published: 2022-12-27T08:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [mobile.dev - Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mobile-dev-medium.md>)

Topics: [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Vanilla JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vanilla-js.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [appium](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/appium.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [maestro](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maestro.md>), [swiftui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/swiftui.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>)

## AI overview

Maestro 1.18 introduces a rebuilt iOS driver that provides a more complete understanding of UI layout and improves discovery of previously missing or hard-to-find elements. The article explains Maestro's view-matching approach and describes its OS-agnostic device interface and initial use of Facebook's IDB tool.

## Source excerpt

If you were using Maestro for iOS in the past, chances are -- you have seen the issues with elements not being easily discoverable or outright missing. No more!