idevice

A Rust library for interacting with iOS services. Inspired by libimobiledevice and pymobiledevice3, this library interfaces with lockdownd and usbmuxd to perform actions on an iOS device that a Mac normally would.

For help and information, join the idevice Discord

State

IMPORTANT: Breaking changes will happen at each point release until 0.2.0. Pin your Cargo.toml to a specific version to avoid breakage.

This library is in development and research stage. Releases are being published to crates.io for use in other projects, but the API and feature-set are far from final or even planned.

Features

To keep dependency bloat and compile time down, everything is contained in features.

Feature	Description
afc	Apple File Conduit for file system access.
amfi	Apple mobile file integrity service
core_device_proxy	Start a secure tunnel to access protected services.
crashreportcopymobile	Copy crash reports.
debug_proxy	Send GDB commands to the device.
dvt	Access Apple developer tools (e.g. Instruments).
heartbeat	Maintain a heartbeat connection.
house_arrest	Manage files in app containers
installation_proxy	Manage app installation and uninstallation.
springboardservices	Control SpringBoard (e.g. UI interactions). Partial support.
misagent	Manage provisioning profiles on the device.
mobile_image_mounter	Manage DDI images.
location_simulation	Simulate GPS locations on the device.
pair	Pair the device.
syslog_relay	Relay system logs from the device
tcp	Connect to devices over TCP.
tunnel_tcp_stack	Naive in-process TCP stack for core_device_proxy.
tss	Make requests to Apple’s TSS servers. Partial support.
tunneld	Interface with pymobiledevice3’s tunneld.
usbmuxd	Connect using the usbmuxd daemon.
xpc	Access protected services via XPC over RSD.

Planned/TODO

Finish the following:

• springboard

Implement the following:

• companion_proxy
• diagnostics
• mobilebackup2
• notification_proxy
• screenshot
• webinspector

As this project is done in my free time within my busy schedule, there is no ETA for any of these. Feel free to contribute or donate!

Usage

idevice is purposefully verbose to allow for powerful configurations. No size fits all, but effort is made to reduce boilerplate via providers.

// enable the usbmuxd feature
use idevice::{lockdown::LockdowndClient, IdeviceService};
use idevice::usbmuxd::{UsbmuxdAddr, UsbmuxdConnection},

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    // usbmuxd is Apple's daemon for connecting to devices over USB.
    // We'll ask usbmuxd for a device
    let mut usbmuxd = UsbmuxdConnection::default()
        .await
        .expect("Unable to connect to usbmxud")
    let devs = usbmuxd.get_devices().unwrap();
    if devs.is_empty() {
        eprintln!("No devices connected!");
        return;
    }

    // Create a provider to automatically create connections to the device.
    // Many services require opening multiple connections to get where you want.
    let provider = devs[0].to_provider(UsbmuxdAddr::from_env_var().unwrap(), 0, "example-program")

    // ``connect`` takes an object with the provider trait
    let mut lockdown_client = match LockdowndClient::connect(&provider).await {
        Ok(l) => l,
        Err(e) => {
            eprintln!("Unable to connect to lockdown: {e:?}");
            return;
        }
    };

    println!("{:?}", lockdown_client.get_value("ProductVersion").await);
    println!(
        "{:?}",
        lockdown_client
            .start_session(
                &provider
                    .get_pairing_file()
                    .await
                    .expect("failed to get pairing file")
            )
            .await
    );
    println!("{:?}", lockdown_client.idevice.get_type().await.unwrap());
    println!("{:#?}", lockdown_client.get_all_values().await);
}

More examples are in the tools crate and in the crate documentation.

FFI

For use in other languages, a small FFI crate has been created to start exposing idevice. Example C programs can be found in this repository.

Version Policy

As Apple prohibits downgrading to older versions, this library will not keep compatibility for older versions than the current stable release.

Developer Disk Images

doronz88 is kind enough to maintain a repo for disk images and personalized images. On MacOS, you can find them at ~/Library/Developer/DeveloperDiskImages.

License

MIT