Capture iPhone iOS HTTP traffic Using Wireshark

Packet sniffing tutorial for beginners: how to capture the packets sent and received by iOS Apps on your Mac

Penny Ng
Geek Culture

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Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash

I’m recently doing an IoT project. Sometimes I have to investigate more complex problems that potentially happen in the network layer, so I use Wireshark to capture the network traffic between my iOS apps and IoT hardware.

Let’s see how to start packet sniffing using Wireshark!

Install Wireshark

Wireshark is free and open-source. You can download Wireshark from its official website https://www.wireshark.org/.

After completing the installation, you should see a screen like this, showing all the capture interfaces:

You can start capturing the traffic of any of the listed interfaces by double-clicking it now. But if you would like to capture the traffic of your iPhone, you have to do one more step.

Create a Remote Virtual Interface

Since the network communication between your iPhone and IoT hardware is not going…

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Penny Ng
Geek Culture

A passionate self-taught  iOS developer. Write to record my learning and share the knowledge