pymobiledevice3

pymobiledevice3 is a pure Python 3 implementation for interacting with iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, ...). It ships both a command-line tool and a Python API, and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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What it can do

• Device discovery over bonjour and USB (usbmux)
• TCP port forwarding
• Syslog and oslog streaming
• Profile and application management
• AFC file access
• Crash report collection
• Network sniffing (PCAP)
• Firmware update, recovery/DFU workflows
• Notification listen/post
• Querying and setting SpringBoard options
• WebInspector automation
• DDI/DVT developer tooling (iOS 17+ over a tunnel)
• Backup and restore

Where to go next

• Installation

  Install from PyPI or source and run your first command.

• CLI recipes

  Task-oriented examples for everyday commands.

• iOS 17+ tunnels

  Reach developer services on modern iOS — including the no-root --userspace tunnel.

• Python API

  Connect to a device and drive services from your own code.

• API reference

  Generated reference for the public classes.

• Protocol internals

  How the iDevice stack, RemoteXPC, and DTX actually work.

License and credits

Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. See the project page for the full list of contributors.