Running apps on iDevice

In the section that we just saw, we executed the application on simulator. Now, let's run the same application on iDevice. While pentesting, we will mostly use iDevice as a target and not the simulator. The iDevice makes it easier to perform security assessment of the application.

We provided the Hello World application's Xcode project with this chapter. Download the Xcode project, connect your iDevice to Xcode, and perform the following steps:

  1. Start Xcode with the Hello World application and select your iDevice as a target, as follows:
    Running apps on iDevice

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