Internet Sharing site to iPhone from Mac

Has anyone tried or managed to successfully ‘Internet Share’ their Local localhost server to a connected iPhone on a mac via Internet Sharing?

Reference: https://mtm.dev/iphone-localhost-mac

For me, and I’m sure others, ngrok works great for some use cases, but the free tier just doesn’t give me enough in its rate limit to be workable. I can debug a site in the safari console using a wired connection, but this is only possible on production/remote sites. Next challenge is accessing my local site on the phone, in order to debug in the real environment. There are too many inconsistencies between desktop and phone browsers.

I don’t have an iPhone, so I’ve never tried that, but when I’m doing cross-device testing, I’ll often use browser-sync to watch for changes and propagate events across browsers.

This reply has more info:
https://localwp.com/community/t/ngrok-live-link-too-many-connections-and-multi-device-sync/13546/2?u=ben.turner

Note that when you run browser-sync, it will show you an “External URL” which you can use for any device that is on the same network as your dev machine.

My workaround for this is a bit different. Instead of sharing sites so my real iPhone can see the sites, I just use the iOS Simulator that comes with Xcode. Since native macOS and iOS apps are the other side of my programming world (besides WP) I have the tools already. It just seems simpler. But I understand that for only this use, those tools would be quite heavy.