React native app stuck on splash screen on device but works in simulator

Question

My React Native app works in the XCode simulator with no issues, but when I run in a physical device, my iPhone, there\'s a problem. The app launches and gets stuck on the React

Answer 1

Just experienced this and after an hour of debugging realized I had recently enabled my systems firewall and set it to "Block all incoming connections".

Weird thing is that android was functioning fine on a physical device, however iOS on a physical device was not able to connect to the RN server. Relaxed the firewall rules and now iOS can connect to the RN server.