ipatool

Since March these libraries, along with others, have all been [unable to use Apple iOS app store authentication blocking any downloads. This is a usual cat and mouse game of Apple fixing/patching/changing and various third parties trying to keep up. For some reason this time was different and Apple went back on their changes after 3 months. There are two main libraries, among others ipatool https://github.com/majd/ipatool/ and ipswm https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/, that are used to download the IPA files. (https://github.com/majd/ipatool/issues/357). June 2025 update: Aaand their back! Without any fixes from the public, all the existing tools are working again. This is much different and seems to indicate that Apple either walked back their changes. Notably, this happened after the recent antitrust measures, so I discussed that a bit

https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/issues/668#issuecomment-290... I saw this hilarious exchange in one of the issues covering Apple’s recent changes that make it impossible to download IPA files. Recreating an iPhone’s authentication to Apple App Store is a bit of a cat and mouse game. Apple recently changed it’s backend, so now dozens of projects are trying to find ways to circumvent or crack the Apple App Store download authentication. Blacktop, out of likely boredom or curiosity, threw Claude at this issue for Claude to error out. To be fair, it’s likely impossible for Claude to have figured this issue out. The ‘fix’ will be something quite novel, for example perhaps reverse engineering a way to authenticate with modern Apple App Store using an old Windows version of iTunes that is still supported. Perhaps in the near future AI agents wi

ipatool (https://github.com/majd/ipatool) + mremap_encrypted (syscall on Apple Silicon)