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June 21, 2026 at 07:56AM

RTL-SDR Now Runs on iPad M-Series Devices Directly via USB Without Jailbreak

[REF]:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-now-runs-on-ipad-m-series-devices-directly-via-usb-without-jailbreak/

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Thank you to Arved (DK5AV/M0KDS) for writing in and sharing with us some exciting news. Arved has just announced his USBDriverKit extension for RTL-SDRs over on X and released it as open-source code on GitHub. This is an unofficial port of librtlsdr, created using USBDriverKit instead of libusb, which is not available on iOS. This now allows RTL-SDRs to run directly on iPad iOS devices via USB without any jailbreak requirements. Previously, RTL-SDRs were unable to run on iOS devices directly. The only way around this was to run an RTL-SDR remotely and connect to it over a network via rtl_tcp. The one caveat

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