Triaging the device
When you're dealing with iOS devices, it's useful to gather some information directly from the device prior to starting the acquisition process. Knowing what iOS version is running on the device, for instance, can be useful to determine what the best acquisition method is. For this purpose, we're going to use libimobiledevice.
The libimobiledevice library is a cross-platform library that allows users to communicate with an iOS device using their native protocol to provide access to the device's filesystem, including information about the device and its internals. It works with all devices, including the most recent ones.
The first step is to head to http://libimobiledevice.org, where the library can be downloaded for free. If you're running Windows, instead of downloading the source files and compiling them, you can download precompiled binaries from the project's GitHub repository.
If you're running macOS, you can install...
