ideviceimagemounter(1)

ideviceimagemounter1

Mount, list, or unmount a disk image on the device.

Usage

ideviceimagemounter [OPTIONS] COMMAND [COMMAND OPTIONS]

Overview

Mount, list, or unmount a disk image on the device.

Commands

mount PATH

Mount the developer disk image at PATH. For iOS 17+, PATH is a directory containing a .dmg image, a BuildManifest.plist, and a Firmware sub-directory.

For older versions PATH is a .dmg filename with a .dmg.signature file in the same directory, or with another parameter pointing to a file elsewhere.

list

List mounted disk images.

unmount PATH

Unmount the image mounted at PATH.

devmodestatus

Query the developer mode status (iOS 16+)

Options

-u, --udid UDID

target specific device by UDID.

-n, --network

connect to network device.

-d, --debug

enable communication debugging.

-t, --imagetype NAME

the image type to use, default is 'Developer'

-x, --xml

use XML output

-h, --help

prints usage information

-v, --version

prints version information.

On the web

https://libimobiledevice.org

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 6.0–7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11–12
  6. 13–Arch

--network since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --udid since Debian 8 (Jessie); --version since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -n since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

--list until Debian 12 (Bookworm); --uuid until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -l until Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Author

Nikias Bassen

Man page written to conform with Debian by Julien Lavergne.

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