MobileGestalt Device Info

Get device information from the MobileGetalt private library


Description

A few days ago u/gianflo6 published a shortcut in a comment that showed how to read the cached com.apple.MobileGestalt.plist file.

Intrigued, I looked into it, and although the information in it seemed relevant, the dictionary keys were annoyingly obfuscated. Fortunately I found this fascinating blog post by /u/timacfr where he deobfuscated most of them, so I decided to, based on that information, do this shortcut.

The shortcut outputs a readable version of the CacheExtra key in com.apple.MobileGestalt.plist, which contains interesting information about each device.

A long time ago I did a shortcut to get information about each device, but it depended on JavaScript used for web tracking, so it stopped working when Apple brought the hammer down. Maybe it's time to resuscitate this old shortcut?


Latest Release Notes

1.0.0 - March 28, 2020, 1:07 p.m.

First public version. iOS 13 only for now. Supports UpdateHub.


Past versions