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Collect console logs for iOS devices


Mostly I work in a windows environment and it is necessary to get console logs for iOS devices to find out the root cause of the issue. We can get iOS app crash log from this path ( C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\DSS-Iphone 6 ) in windows machine using iTunes. But we need an entire app log to understand what goes wrong in the application.

And after some research, I found iTools which allow you to manage iOS devices and also show entire device logs. This tool helps me to do my testing. As per my understanding, this tool will not run without iTunes. iTools was also affected by the latest iTunes update.

Now I have found some other tool called 'iOSLogInfo'. Download and run iOSLogInfo to get console log for iOS devices in windows.

Requirements:-
Steps:-

  1. Download and save iOSLogInfo zip downloading by above link.
  2. Extract the zip file contents.
  3. Ensure iTunes for windows is installed.
  4. Connect your iOS device to a PC.
  5. From a command prompt navigate to the location you extracted the above contents and run one of the followings to start a live log collection session. 
  • sdsiosloginfo.exe -d
          OR to write the contents to a log file run.
  •  sdsiosloginfo.exe -d > d:\iOS_log.log
Additonal commands available:

Start logging:-
sdsiosloginfo.exe -d > d:\folder\iOS_Console_Log.log

Pull disk usage:
sdsiosloginfo.exe -q com.apple.disk_usage -x > d:\folder\iOS_Disk_Usage.xml

Pull device status:
sdsiosloginfo.exe -x >  d:\folder\iOS_Device_Stats.xml

Pull iTunes log:-
sdsiosloginfo.exe -e  -k d:\folder

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Comments

  1. Anonymous1 February 2017 at 22:14

    Thanks Vijay for sharing the valuable information.

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  2. Vijaykumar Nadeshan8 February 2017 at 02:15

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  3. Vijaykumar Nadeshan8 February 2017 at 02:18

    Blackberry publishes this little tool to help testers who is using windows machine to get iOS device and app logs for support purposes. It is a free command line tool and can be used as simple as ADB for Android.

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  4. vjkumran17 January 2019 at 01:31

    Today I came to know the blog about "How to 'Access the iPhone Debug Log/Console on Windows'"?

    Nice blog worth to read

    https://deciphertools.com/blog/iphone-debug-log-console-apple-configurator/

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