ipsw

iOS/macOS Research Swiss Army Knife

What is ipsw 🤔

• IPSW downloader/exploder
• OTA downloader/exploder
• macho parser
• ObjC class-dump
• Swift class-dump 🚧
• dyld_shared_cache parser
• kernelcache parser
• img4 parser/decrypter
• device-tree parser
• ARM v9-a disassember
• research tool

Install

macOS

brew install blacktop/tap/ipsw

Linux

sudo snap install ipsw

Windows

scoop bucket add blacktop https://github.com/blacktop/scoop-bucket.git 
scoop install blacktop/ipsw

Getting Started

❯ ipsw

Download and Parse IPSWs (and SO much more)

Usage:
  ipsw [command]

Available Commands:
  appstore        Interact with the App Store Connect API
  class-dump      ObjC class-dump a dylib from a DSC or MachO
  device-list     List all iOS devices
  diff            Diff IPSWs
  download        Download Apple Firmware files (and more)
  dtree           Parse DeviceTree
  dyld            Parse dyld_shared_cache
  ent             Search IPSW filesystem DMG or Folder for MachOs with a given entitlement
  extract         Extract kernelcache, dyld_shared_cache or DeviceTree from IPSW/OTA
  fw              Firmware commands
  help            Help about any command
  idev            USB connected device commands
  img4            Parse Img4
  info            Display IPSW/OTA Info
  kernel          Parse kernelcache
  macho           Parse MachO
  mdevs           List all MobileDevices in IPSW
  mount           Mount DMG from IPSW
  ota             Parse OTAs
  plist           Dump plist as JSON
  pongo           PongoOS Terminal
  ssh             SSH into a jailbroken device
  swift-dump      🚧 Swift class-dump a dylib from a DSC or MachO
  symbolicate     Symbolicate ARM 64-bit crash logs (similar to Apple's symbolicatecrash)
  version         Print the version number of ipsw
  watch           Watch Github Commits

Flags:
      --color           colorize output
      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.config/ipsw/config.yaml)
  -h, --help            help for ipsw
      --no-color        disable colorize output
  -V, --verbose         verbose output

Use "ipsw [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Documentation

• https://blacktop.github.io/ipsw

graph TD
A[Download] --> B[Extract]
B --> C[Parse]
C --> D[Dump]
D --> E[Search]
E --> F[Symbolicate]

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ipsw Diffs

A collection of ipsw diffs can be found here:

• https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-diffs

Community

You have questions, need support and or just want to talk about ipsw?

Here are ways to get in touch with the ipsw community:

Known Issues

• macOS IPSW etc support is sometimes broken

  Automated testing of ipsw is challenging as it requires a lot of resources to test all the different IPSW flavors and OS versions etc. No CI/CD can really handle that unless I want to wait forever for it to run on each commit. Please create an issue and I'll fix it as soon as I can ❤️ (NOTE: a comprehensive test suite is in the roadmap so I can at least test on the few local IPSWs I have)

Credit

Big shout out to Jonathan Levin's amazing books and his legendary jtool

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License

MIT Copyright (c) 2018-2024 blacktop