idevicecrashreport(1)

idevicecrashreport1

Retrieve crash reports from a device.

Usage

idevicecrashreport [OPTIONS] DIRECTORY

Overview

Simple utility to move crash reports from a device to a local directory.

The utility outputs lines prefixed with either "Link:", "Copy:" or "Move:" depending on whether a symlink was created, a file was copied or moved from the device to the target DIRECTORY.

Options

-u, --udid UDID

Target specific device by UDID.

-n, --network

Connect to network device.

-e, --extract

Extract raw crash report into separate '.crash' files.

-k, --keep

Copy but do not remove crash reports from device.

-d, --debug

Enable communication debugging.

-f, --filter NAME

Filter crash reports by NAME (case sensitive)

--remove-all

Remove all crash log files without copying. Can be used with -f to only remove matching files.

-h, --help

Prints usage information.

-v, --version

Prints version information.

On the web

https://libimobiledevice.org

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11–12
  5. 13–Arch

--filter since Debian 13 (Trixie); --network since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --remove-all since Debian 13 (Trixie); --version since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -f since Debian 13 (Trixie); -n since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Author

Martin Szulecki

Nikias Bassen

From libimobiledevice 1.4.0-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.