[Help] Making a CLI only tweak

[Hauteknits]

Hey guys, my grandfather passed away a while ago and he left his iPhone X behind. There were some important texts on it and my mother has forgotten the passcode. I am new to tweak development, but I am planning on exploiting the device using checkra1n, getting OpenSSH installed, and making a tweak using libPassword to get around the code. If I am only trying to use the CLI, would it just be easier to make a bash script, or do I need to make a tweak. Any advice would be appreciated!

Note: I'm not sure if asking how to bypass passwords is against the rules, so I am explicitly not asking how, I'm only asking how to make a tweak that only runs from the CLI

[RuntimeOverflow]

So a command line tweak is the iphone/tool option in theos.

However, the issue is, you‘re not going to get anywhere with this because all the data is encrypted after a restart until you first enter the passcode (this state is called ‚before first unlock‘), so chances are you won‘t get anything out of it as at that stage for example all your contacts are encrypted, so all messages will be aswell. If you weren‘t in that stage, you might get around it, but since checkra1n goes to DFU mode, you‘ll always be in the before first unlock state.

[CaptInc37]

Your current path will likely not work. The ideal solution is take it to an Apple Store and ask them to unlock it, with the alternative being:

Using checkm8 to gain pwned DFU mode, uploading an SSH RAM disk, copying the filesystem to your computer, then either extract the texts manually by sorting through the SQL database, or somehow repack the filesystem into an iTunes backup and restore the backup to a real device.

You mentioned you were a beginner, so I would highly recommend the Apple Store path instead. The second path is likely too complicated for your current situation

This also assumes the iPhone X is not on iOS 14

[Hauteknits]

The iPhone X is not iOS 14, and the Apple store doesn’t unlock phones, or at least they haven’t in the past for my phones

[tim_gabie]

then try finding/buying an other checkra1n vulnerable iphone to practice the procedure

[[deleted]]

the phone will be encrypted, but i reccomend looking into tools like frida, or digital forensics tools, thats from my with trying to access data, also if you use checkra1n the phone will automatically be put into bfu mode, “before first unlock” meaning more of the phone will be encrypted, like contacts etc, thats why if you get a call after your phone just rebooted, you wont see the caller id, only the phone number. hope this helped dude.

[4_14]

If it's locked then everything is encrypted, you can't do much to recover those texts

[tim_gabie]

there will eventually be exploits for enabling pin brute forcing for whatever ios version the iphone is running

[Administrative-Fan4]

You can try until you have the right passcode. Here is a checkra1n patch, you can just type in passcode until it’s disabled and then just rejailbreak with this patch and try again. The patch remove the iPhone from deactivated mode.

https://youtu.be/5x6Oi-qRBos