On: Capturing and Decrypting HTTPS Traffic from iOS Apps Using Frida (2019)

[cedws]

Why do this over installing a root CA and using mitmproxy as a proxy server?

[inickt → cedws]

As mentioned below, lots of iOS apps will use certificate pinning to verify they aren’t being MITM’ed.

[youngtaff → cedws]

In addition to the cert pinning issue, I found it handy when I wanted to look at the Safari's HTTP/2 implementation and proxies can get in the way

I believe this method can also be used to decrypt traffic going over the cellular interface too