Wednesday, April 25, 2018

How to get Bundle Identifier of an iOS App from Apple AppStore/ IPA file

Find the Bundle Identifier of An iOS Application (App Bundle ID OR Bundle ID)


If your app is in the App Store.

1- Find the app online (Google for the iTunes link). For this example we use Apple Pages: https://itunes.apple.com/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8.

2- Copy the number after the id in the URL. (Here: 361309726).

3- Open https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=361309726 where you replace the ID with the one you looked up.

4- Search the output for "bundleID". In this example it looks like this (next to a bunch of other data): "bundleId":"com.apple.Pages". So for Apple, the bundle ID is com.apple.Pages.

If you have the .ipa file directly

1- Copy the .ipa file and rename the extension to .zip. (So e.g. MyApp.ipa will become MyApp.zip)

2- Unzip the zip file. You will get a new folder named like the zip file.

3- Search for the file iTunesMetadata.plist in that new folder.

4- Open the file with a text editor and search for softwareVersionBundleId. For Pages app this looks like this and is com.apple.Pages: