GET .IPA of any app which is available on App Store

Muhammad Ali
3 min readAug 25, 2023

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We can get the .iPA file of any app available on App Store with these steps

1. On your iPhone, install the app which’s IPA you are looking for.

2. Install Apple Configurator 2 on your mac from app store.

3. Connect the Apple Configurator 2 with your Apple ID account “Account->Sign In”

4. Connect your iPhone to the Mac via Cable. open Apple configurator, your iPhone will be visible to you.

5. Right click on iPhone, and select an action “Add->Apps…”

6. Select an app to download and click a button “Add”

7. Once the app is downloaded on you Mac device you will be asked to select an action in Apple Configurator 2. Do nothing at this moment

8. now open Finder and press Cmnd + Shift + G and paste the below command, you’ll see your .iPA.

~/Library/Group Containers/K36BKF7T3D.group.com.apple.configurator/Caches/Assets/TemporaryItems/MobileApps”. In one of subfolders you will find the downloaded application

. You can change the extension of .iPA

Extract .IPA of Which is not available on App Store.

we can get this only if we’ve source code of the application via below steps:

  • open the source code using Xcode (latest version of Xcode is preferred)
  • Click on Destination Selector Dropdown and select any iOS Device.
  • Go to Menu bar of Xcode and click on Product -> Arhive.
  • it’ll take some time and than below pop up will appear, click on Distribute app.
Distribute app
Select Ad hoc and press Next
Click Next
  • Click on Export and choose the location to save .iPA file on your local machine. You’re Done!

XCODE -> Athis .iPA file from Xocde

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Muhammad Ali

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