brew install blacktop/tap/ipsw
This is documentation for the ipsw tool. For documentation of the ipsw file format, see the corresponding page on The Apple Wiki
ipsw is an all-purpose tool for iOS reverse engineering and research.
Installation
scoop bucket add blacktop https://github.com/blacktop/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install blacktop/ipsw
sudo snap install blacktop/tap/ipsw
Usage
Running ipsw without any arguments, or with the --help argument will print a list of commands.
ipsw --help
Download and Parse IPSWs (and SO much more)
Usage:
ipsw [command]
Available Commands:
appstore Interact with the App Store Connect API
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 for MachOs with a given entitlement
extract Extract kernelcache, dyld_shared_cache or DeviceTree from IPSW/OTA
help Help about any command
iboot Dump firmwares
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
sepfw Dump MachOs
ssh SSH into a jailbroken device
symbolicate Symbolicate ARM 64-bit crash logs (similar to Apple's symbolicatecrash)
update Download an ipsw update if one exists
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
-V, --verbose verbose output
Use "ipsw [command] --help" for more information about a command.