Shorts Begone: Modding YouTube on iOS (without jailbreaking)
iOS reverse engineering can seem daunting – where do you even begin? With jailbreaking iOS becoming increasingly difficult each year, you can no longer simply attach a debugger to your phone and analyse an app’s behaviour as you once could. However, new tools and frameworks have emerged that make it possible to modify apps without a jailbreak. This talk is designed as a practical guide from zero to hero, using the YouTube app as a case study – specifically, modding it to remove short-form content.
We’ll cover the history of iOS reverse engineering and tweak development, iOS app packaging, dynamic analysis, method swizzling, and in-app debugging. Plus, with the advent of Apple Silicon Macs, you don’t even need an iPhone to start reverse-engineering iOS apps.
