libimobiledevice
brew install libimobiledeviceLibrary to communicate with iOS devices natively
https://www.libimobiledevice.org/
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libimobiledevice.json
Formula code: libimobiledevice.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 1.4.0 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Revision: 2
Depends on:
| libimobiledevice-glue | 1.3.3 | Library with common system API code for libimobiledevice projects |
| libplist | 2.8.1 | Library for Apple Binary- and XML-Property Lists |
| libtasn1 | 4.21.0 | ASN.1 structure parser library |
| libtatsu | 1.1.1 | Library handling the communication with Apple's Tatsu Signing Server (TSS) |
| libusbmuxd | 2.1.1 | USB multiplexor library for iOS devices |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
Depends on when building from source:
| autoconf | 2.73 | Automatic configure script builder |
| automake | 1.20 | Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles |
| libtool | 2.6.2 | Generic library support script |
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
Binaries:
afcclient,
idevice_id,
idevicebackup,
idevicebackup2,
idevicebtlogger,
idevicecrashreport,
idevicedate,
idevicedebug,
idevicedebugserverproxy,
idevicedevmodectl,
idevicediagnostics,
ideviceenterrecovery,
ideviceimagemounter,
ideviceinfo,
idevicename,
idevicenotificationproxy,
idevicepair,
ideviceprovision,
idevicescreenshot,
idevicesetlocation,
idevicesyslog
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 120,116 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 1,472,684 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 10,883 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 11.0× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-14T00:21:49Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-15 to 2026-11-14. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 10,786 | 26,543 | 74,250 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 97 | 305 | 2,656 |
| Installs on Request | 10,043 | 24,758 | 69,916 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 96 | 304 | 2,654 |
| Build Errors | 15 | ||
Build Errors (--HEAD) | 1 |