Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt

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• Installer (.msi): Download and run the installer. Recommended for most users.
• Portable (.zip): Extract and run iDescriptor.exe. No installation required.
• Choco :

 choco install idescriptor --version=0.1.0

• Apple Silicon: Download the .dmg file for M1/M2/M3/MX Macs.
  Open the .dmg and drag iDescriptor to Applications.
  

After moving the app to Applications, run the code below

xattr -c ~/Applications/iDescriptor.app

Click here to learn more about why this is needed.

• Intel: Download the .dmg file for Intel-based Macs.
  Open the .dmg and drag iDescriptor to Applications.
  

  You shouldn't run into any issues on Intel Macs but if you do, check this out.

• AppImage: Download, unzip, and run.
• Arch Linux: Install from AUR:

  sudo pacman -Syu
  yay -S idescriptor-git

make sure to do "sudo pacman -Syu" otherwise it's not going to find libimobiledevice>=1.4.0

You need to sign in with your Apple ID to use this feature.

Literally mount your iDevice filesystem and use it as a regular drive , read and write are both allowed. Don't try to import photos or videos because it won't work that way, use the Gallery Import feature for that.

Useful if your device does not support AirPlay

You might get this pop-up on any platform this is because this app uses secure backends to retrieve and store your Apple credentials. You can disable this in settings but it is not recommended and not safe for your Apple account. Also if you leave this enabled and sign in you can use the same credentials in ipatool without signing in again.

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You can become a sponsor from GitHub Sponsors or

• libimobiledevice
• ipatool - We use a modified version here
• QSimpleUpdater - We use a modified version here
• UxPlay (for AirPlay) - We use a modified version here

iDescriptor will check for udev rules but in case it fails, you can manually add the udev rules by doing similar to the following:

@uncore  sudo cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-idevice.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="05ac", MODE="0666"

✘  Sun 6 Jul - 14:29  ~ 
@uncore  sudo groupadd idevice

Sun 6 Jul - 14:30  ~ 
@uncore  sudo usermod -aG idevice $USER

Sun 6 Jul - 14:30  ~ 
@uncore  sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

For more info UDEV.md

Contributions are welcome!

We actively develop on dev branch, so please base your pull requests off of that branch.

You can also send a pr to main branch but it should be something related to building, publish to some package manager or documentation.

Planned Features

• Migrate to idevice-rs DONE ✅
• Wireless Connection Support DONE ✅
• Install IPA files directly from the app
• Virtual Location Support for iOS 17 and above DONE ✅
• Migrate to UCRT for better performance and stability Windows
• New UI/UX improvements Windows ✅
• Read gallery from Photos.sqlite
• Download any version of any app from app store
• Implement sideloading
• Import music
• Companion app on device

You can always become a sponsor/donate to request/prioritize a feature or speed up the development process!

If you encounter a similar "damaged" error when trying to open the app on macOS, you can resolve this by running the following command in the terminal:

xattr -c ~/Applications/iDescriptor.app

You need to run this because macOS blocks apps that are not signed by an Apple Developer ID. By clearing the extended attributes, you can bypass this security feature.

This not something specific to iDescriptor, for example check this out.

You can be more explicit and only remove the quarantine attribute like so:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/iDescriptor.app