iOS Carrier Bundles Archive

A public, versioned archive of iOS carrier bundles extracted from official Apple IPSW firmware images. Every iOS build gets its own snapshot — nothing is ever overwritten — so you can diff carrier settings across releases and track how operators (and Apple) change them over time.

Repository layout

carrier-bundles/
  <iOS version>-<build>.<devices>/     e.g. 27.0-24A5380h.V53_V54_V57OS/
    <Carrier>_<cc>.bundle/             e.g. vivo_br.bundle, ATT_NR_US.bundle
      Info.plist
      carrier.plist                    ← the main carrier configuration
      overrides_*.plist                ← per-device overrides
      signatures/

• One folder per iOS build. Older builds are kept forever; new builds are added alongside them.
• Folder names encode iOSversion-buildID.deviceBoards (the device set the IPSW was published for).
• Bundle names encode Carrier_countrycode (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, lowercase; US carriers use _US).

Current coverage

iOS build	Bundles	Notes
26.5.1 (23F81)	691
26.5.2 (23F84)	691
26.6 (23G5028e → 23G5065a)	691	4 beta builds
27.0 (24A5355q → 24A5380h)	689 → 681	bundle count shrinking — Apple consolidating carriers

What's in a carrier bundle?

Carrier bundles are how Apple ships operator-specific settings inside iOS: APNs, VoLTE/VoWiFi/5G feature flags, RCS configuration, carrier name strings, tethering rules, visual voicemail, emergency-call behavior, and more. Diffing two versions of the same bundle shows exactly what an operator enabled or changed between iOS releases.

Tip — most .plist files here are Apple binary plists. To read or diff them:

plutil -convert xml1 -o - carrier.plist        # macOS
plistutil -i carrier.plist                     # Linux (libplist)

How this archive is built

An automated pipeline watches Apple's OTA/IPSW catalogs, downloads each new build, extracts the carrier bundles (using blacktop/ipsw) and commits them here as a new versioned folder. Related project: carrier-bundle-ios.

Legal

The files in this archive are the property of Apple Inc. and/or the respective carriers. They are redistributed here unmodified, solely for interoperability research, network engineering and archival purposes, extracted from firmware images Apple distributes publicly and free of charge. No ownership is claimed over this content, and no license is granted for it.

If you are a rights holder and want content removed, open an issue and it will be taken down promptly.

Acknowledgements

• blacktop/ipsw — IPSW download/extraction tooling
• ios-rcs — inspiration for making carrier data publicly browsable