[mobile-kevin]

On a real iPhone, a call that needs the injected agent no longer fails with "relaunch the app" after the daemon exits. The auto-started daemon exits after 30 idle minutes, and the agent's port lived only in its memory.

What changes

• The agent answers +[MobileServer activePort]. The probe that already ran before each map now reads the port from the running agent, and the new daemon reconnects to it.
• The method is looked up before it is called, because an unknown selector would crash the app. An agent from an older mobilecli gets a clear "relaunch the app" error.
• The 3-second "did not respond" error now also says to relaunch the app. A recovered agent can have lost its server.
• The agent's accept loop waits 100 ms after a failure. Before, a failed listening socket would use a full CPU core in the app.

Simulators stay on LLDB and are not changed by the probe.

Measured

iPhone 11, iOS 26.5.2, test app in the foreground. The app was not relaunched between daemon stops.

Case	Result
Hide after the 1st or 2nd daemon stop in a row	36 of 36 worked, 2.1 to 3.6s in the 4 of 6 runs that printed timing
Hide after the 3rd daemon stop in a row	12 of 18 worked, see below
Fresh injection	15 of 15 worked, median 4.1s, worst 19.75s
Throwaway build asking for a selector the agent lacks	clear error, app stayed alive, real build then hid the keyboard
Simulator after a daemon stop	3 of 3 worked, 9.8 to 12.9s

Known issue, not fixed here

On the third quick daemon restart in a row, 6 of 18 hides returned an error although the keyboard had closed. The check after the hide got connection reset by peer from DeviceKit on port 8100 for the whole 5-second wait, and the next command worked. This is not the injected agent, and the cause is not known. A daemon that exits after 30 idle minutes is one restart, which was not affected in these runs.

Not tested on a device

• A real idle exit. The tests used mobilecli daemon stop.
• An app that was suspended while the daemon was gone.

Checks

go build ./..., go test ./... and golangci-lint run --new-from-rev=origin/main pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The app can now reconnect to an already-running iOS service and use its active connection.
• Bug Fixes
  • When the service cannot be found or does not support the required connection, the app provides clearer guidance to relaunch it.
  • Connection retries now pause briefly after failed attempts, avoiding rapid repeated retries.

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Walkthrough

The iOS agent setup flow can now query the listening port of an already registered MobileServer. The change adds Objective-C class-method lookup and invocation, exposes the server’s active port, and updates relaunch guidance for missing methods or zero ports.

Changes: iOS Agent Port Discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose the MobileServer port agents/ios/server.h, agents/ios/server.m	MobileServer exposes the port stored after a successful bind. Failed accept calls now pause for 100 ms before retrying.
Resolve and invoke Objective-C class methods devices/ios/machomap/exporttrie.go, devices/ios/machomap/runtime.go, devices/ios/machomap/runtime_test.go, devices/ios/machomap/target_test.go	The resolver maps Objective-C class-method helpers. CallClassMethod looks up and invokes a class method, with tests for registered classes, absent classes, missing methods, and sequential register values.
Reuse an existing agent devices/ios_device_agent.go, devices/ios_device_agent_native.go, devices/ios_device_agent_native_test.go	Agent setup queries MobileServer.activePort when the class is registered. It handles zero ports and missing methods, and updates setup and relaunch messages.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent as mapAgentOverConn
  participant Runtime as CallClassMethod
  participant Server as MobileServer.activePort
  Agent->>Runtime: Look up and invoke activePort
  Runtime->>Server: Call class method
  Server-->>Runtime: Return listening port
  Runtime-->>Agent: Return port and registration status

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Suggested reviewers: gmegidish

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f6397

No confirmed issue blocks merging. Real idle exits and suspended apps remain untested, but the available evidence does not establish a failure in those cases.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 45.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: finding the iOS agent again after the daemon exits.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 45.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 11 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Files selected for processing: 9

• agents/ios/server.h
• agents/ios/server.m
• devices/ios/machomap/exporttrie.go
• devices/ios/machomap/runtime.go
• devices/ios/machomap/runtime_test.go
• devices/ios/machomap/target_test.go
• devices/ios_device_agent.go
• devices/ios_device_agent_native.go
• devices/ios_device_agent_native_test.go

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