---
name: "idevicecrashreport"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libimobiledevice"
version: "1.4.0-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/idevicecrashreport"
---

# idevicecrashreport(1)

Retrieve crash reports from a device.

## NAME

idevicecrashreport - Retrieve crash reports from a device.

## SYNOPSIS

**idevicecrashreport** \[OPTIONS\] DIRECTORY

## DESCRIPTION

Simple utility to move crash reports from a device to a local directory.

The utility outputs lines prefixed with either "Link:", "Copy:" or "Move:" depending on whether a symlink was created, a file was copied or moved from the device to the target DIRECTORY.

## OPTIONS

- **-u, --udid UDID**

  Target specific device by UDID.

- **-n, --network**

  Connect to network device.

- **-e, --extract**

  Extract raw crash report into separate '.crash' files.

- **-k, --keep**

  Copy but do not remove crash reports from device.

- **-d, --debug**

  Enable communication debugging.

- **-f, --filter NAME**

  Filter crash reports by NAME (case sensitive)

- **--remove-all**

  Remove all crash log files without copying. Can be used with **-f** to only remove matching files.

- **-h, --help**

  Prints usage information.

- **-v, --version**

  Prints version information.

## AUTHOR

Martin Szulecki

Nikias Bassen

## ON THE WEB

https://libimobiledevice.org

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice