App Transport Security and IP addresses in iOS9

Question

I develop my iOS app using a local server running on my dev box. When testing on devices, I connect directly via an IP address, which is over HTTP and not HTTPS (so I don't have to deal with self-signed certs while in development, which the device wouldn't even like anyways).

I thought that this would be sufficient:

However, cannot get it to work without also adding NSAllowsArbitraryLoads = YES, AKA this:

Now, I will have to remember to remove this when rolling a production build but not during development...arg. Should the NSExceptionDomains work with IP addresses, and if not, is there anything else I can do without also enabling NSAllowsArbitraryLoads?

Answer 1

Hard-coded IP address wont work in iOS9. I also faced the same issue. Tried all permutations & combinations of available solutions. Finally, had to use a proper domain name.

So, NO.In iOS9 you just can't get away with hard-coded IP addresses.