iOS IPA file

Sahil Pandya
2 min readSep 4, 2022

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How to check .ipa file contents of your iOS application?

  1. Locate .ipa file in your iOS folder after build generation.

2. Change/Rename ipa file to the zip file.

MyApp.ipa
Rename from ipa to zip

3. Go to the .zip file path using command line tool and Run below command,

unzip MyApp.zip

4. After unzip it will open the payload folder. Inside the payload folder, it will have map file.

Payload content

5. Using Command line tool go to My App file, it will not open directly on click on My App, we need to access file content using command line tool or right click press show package content.

6. After going inside, it will show all the asset files as well your build file plus it will show main.jsbundle file as well.

7. main.jsbundle A file where all the javascript code will be available, To access file content, rename file from main.jsbundle to main.js file

Open main.js file in your code editor where you can see all your code.

Thank you for reading, Please let me know if any suggestions or comment.

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Sahil Pandya

Learning, Exploring, Implementing and then Writing things after experience.