Open IPSW files in your browser
The file Finder and iTunes restore an iPhone, iPad or Mac from. See which devices and version one is for right here, and look through what it holds. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your IPSW opens on a page of what it installs, with its files listed like a folder.
- Devices • Each model and board it restores
- The software • Its version, build and kind of install
- Disk images • Which open and which are encrypted
- Firmware • Each part of the boot chain by name
About IPSW
Apple has shipped the iPhone's software as IPSW files since the first, in 2007, and Finder, iTunes and Apple Configurator restore devices from them, Macs with Apple chips too. People download them to restore a device or put an older version back while Apple still signs it, and to see what a release holds.
An IPSW is a ZIP: BuildManifest.plist lists the devices and boards it's for and every part it installs, Restore.plist names the version, and beside them sit disk images of the system, the restore ramdisk and the update, and the boot chain's firmware, each in Apple's IMG4 wrapper. Newer ones encrypt their disk images as Apple Encrypted Archives (.aea), whose keys come from Apple's servers as a device restores.
Filepeek reads the manifest and shows the version and build, the devices and boards, whether it erases the device or updates it, and each disk image and firmware part with what it does, with every file listed like a folder. Disk images that aren't encrypted open through 7-Zip, and encrypted ones say so, since Filepeek doesn't ask Apple for their keys.
iPhone, iPad and Mac restore image
.ipsw
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Apple
- Released
- 2007
Inside the file
- Holds
- Disk images and firmware
- Packed
- A ZIP
- Lists
- BuildManifest.plist
- Encrypted
- Newer disk images, as AEA
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens IPSW files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on any computer or phone. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open IPSW
- WindowsApple Devices or iTunes, to restore a device
- MacFinder or Apple Configurator, to restore a device
- iPhone and iPadNo app reads it
- AndroidNo app reads it
Questions
Which iPhone is my IPSW for?
Drop it here. The devices it restores are listed by name and model, like iPhone17,1, with the boards they come in.
Can I still install this IPSW?
Only while Apple still signs that version for your device, which it checks as the device restores. Apple usually stops signing a version within a few weeks of the next one.
Why don't its disk images open?
Newer IPSWs encrypt them as Apple Encrypted Archives, whose keys a device gets from Apple's servers as it restores. Filepeek doesn't ask Apple for them, so it says which are encrypted, and older IPSWs' images open.
How do I restore an iPhone from an IPSW?
Connect it to a Mac and hold Option as you click Restore iPhone in Finder, or hold Shift in Apple Devices or iTunes on Windows, then pick the IPSW.