- #HOW TO USE APPLE SERVER OS UPDATE#
- #HOW TO USE APPLE SERVER OS FULL#
- #HOW TO USE APPLE SERVER OS DOWNLOAD#
There may be cleaner and/or better ways to do this, chime in the comments if you have another solution.For more information, see Docker Desktop for Apple silicon. That’s a bit beyond the scope of this article though. Nonetheless, some users use a variation of the above trick to monitor for new iOS releases by periodically querying for various version strings that do not yet exist on Apple’s servers. For example, the following syntax will only return all IPSW results that match iOS 7.0.4, noted by that version string in the second grep:Ĭurl | grep ipsw | grep 7.0.4 | sort -u | sed 's///g' | sed 's///g' | grep -v protected | awk '1'Īpple is quick with pushing out updates and because of the Over-the-Air mechanism most people notice new updates almost right away when they become available. Similar to searching for specific iOS hardware, you can also return specific iOS versions if desired. Get a list of only a specific iOS version from Apple Similar to using grep to search for iPhone, specifying ‘iPad’ will return only iPad firmware files instead:Ĭurl | grep ipsw | grep iPad | sort -u | sed 's///g' | sed 's///g' | grep -v protectedĪs before, you can send that into a text file if desired by adding “> ~/path/to/text.txt” to the end. Retrieve a list of all iPad IPSW available on Apple’s Servers
Get a list of all iPhone IPSW files from the command lineĭon’t care about the other iOS files and just want a list of iPhone IPSW? Use grep for iPhone and the rest of the command stays the same:Ĭurl | grep ipsw | grep iPhone | sort -u | sed 's///g' | sed 's///g' | grep -v protectedĪdd “> ~/Desktop/iPhoneIPSW.txt” to the end to send the results to a text file on the desktop. That will dump everything into a text file named ‘ipswlist.txt’ on the desktop. Executing that command just dumps everything to the command line, you can pass it through ‘more’ to make it more readable, or perhaps preferable to some users is to redirect it into a text file like so:Ĭurl | grep ipsw | sort -u | sed 's///g' | sed 's///g'| grep -v protected > ~/Desktop/ipswlist.txt That list is then passed through the grep command to match for “ipsw” but discount ‘protected’, sort -u makes sure the returned list items is unique, and finally, the results are passed through ‘sed’ to clean up some useless XML from the results.
#HOW TO USE APPLE SERVER OS UPDATE#
To walkthrough the syntax, curl is accessing the “version” list from Apple’s server URL (this is the same URL that is hit by iTunes when it detects an update is available, by the way). The following command string returns a fairly clean list of quite literally every single IPSW file for every iOS device, iPad, iPhone, iPod, you name it, hosted by Apple’s servers:Ĭurl | grep ipsw | sort -u | sed 's///g' | sed 's///g' | grep -v protected Get a List All IPSW Files for All iOS Devices from Apple The commands look broken apart on the web, but they should paste fine into the command line as a single command string on a single line.
#HOW TO USE APPLE SERVER OS FULL#
If you’re going to try these yourself, copy the full syntax block and paste it into the command line. For everyone else, it can be a lesson to further prove we at osxdaily are nerds who spend too much time thinking about this stuff.
#HOW TO USE APPLE SERVER OS DOWNLOAD#
This likely won’t be useful to everyone, but for users who like working with IPSW, or for systems administrators who need to download a bunch of different firmware files to perform bulk updates on a bunch of hardware, this should be helpful.
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