IDA Pro for ARM64 is coming! We have ported all of IDA to run natively on Apple Silicon and it will be available in IDA 7.6.
Initial analysis shows that the hype is real. IDA is consistently performing much faster on M1 macs:
And a visual representation, for your viewing delight:
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We have also ported the mac […]
We have updated our iOS Debugging Tutorial. It has some new sections that should be of particular interest:
“Debugging the DYLD Shared Cache” discusses how to combine IDA’s incremental dyldcache loading functionality with the iOS Debugger.
“Debugging System Applications” is a concrete example of how to use IDA to debug an iOS system daemon on a jailbroken […]
We posted an addendum to the release notes for IDA 7.2: The Mac Rundown.
It dives much deeper into the Mac-specific features introduced in 7.2, and should be great reference material for users interested in reversing the latest Apple binaries. It’s packed full of hints, tricks, and workarounds.
We hope you will find it quite useful!
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