Apple device acquisition with libmobiledevice
Libmobiledevice is a cross-platform software package that you can use for logical data extraction from Apple's mobile devices. There are versions of this software for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Getting ready
Download the libmobiledevice archive and unpack it.
How to do it…
- Unlock the device and connect it to the computer.
- Click
Trust
in response to the request that appears on the screen of your mobile device. - Enter the command:
device_id.exe -l
. The-l
flag is used to get information about all Apple mobile devices connected to the computer. The device UDID was received in response to the request:1f836c8471c4e60ce771e2fdcf14d7e1b31e8b15
:
The result of the command device_id.exe -l
- The device UDID can be used to obtain more information about the connected device. Enter the command:
ideviceinfo.exe -u 1f836c8471c4e60ce771e2fdcf14d7e1b31e8b15
. The result of the command execution will be a large amount of information about the device:
The result of the command...