How to turn on/off airplane mode in IOS 5.1 using private API

Question

I am trying to toggle on/off airplane mode in IOS 5.1 using private frameworks.

In AppSupport.framework, RadiosPreferences has a property to get/set th

Answer 1

As jrtc27 describes in his answer (and I mentioned here), you need to grant your app a special entitlement in order to successfully change the airplaneMode property.

Here's a sample entitlements.xml file to add to your project:

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>com.apple.SystemConfiguration.SCDynamicStore-write-access</key>
    <true/>
    <key>com.apple.SystemConfiguration.SCPreferences-write-access</key>
    <array>
        <string>com.apple.radios.plist</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

com.apple.radios.plist is the file where the airplane mode preference is actually stored, so that's what you need write access to.

No, you don't need to use dlopen or dlsym to access this API. You can add the AppSupport framework to your project directly (with the exception that AppSupport.framework is stored on your Mac under the PrivateFrameworks folder). Then, just instantiate a RadiosPreferences object, and use it normally. The entitlement is the important part.

For your code, first use class-dump, or class-dump-z, to generate the RadiosPreferences.h file, and add it to your project. Then:

#import "RadiosPreferences.h"

and do

RadiosPreferences* preferences = [[RadiosPreferences alloc] init];
preferences.airplaneMode = YES;  // or NO
[preferences synchronize];
[preferences release];           // obviously, if you're not using ARC

I've only tested this for a jailbroken app. I'm not sure if it's possible to acquire this entitlement if the device isn't jailbroken (see Victor Ronin's comment). But, if this is a jailbreak app, make sure you remember to sign your executable with the entitlements file. I normally sign jailbreak apps with ldid, so if my entitlements file is entitlements.xml, then after building in Xcode without code signing, I would execute

ldid -Sentitlements.xml $BUILD_DIR/MyAppName.app/MyAppName

Here's Saurik's page on code signing, and entitlements

Answer 2

Add com.apple.SystemConfiguration.SCPreferences-write-access to your entitlements plist and set it to true (you may need to create the plist). I believe the following should work - if it doesn't I can look later tonight when I'm able to test it:

NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:@"/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppSupport.framework"];
BOOL success = [bundle load];

Class RadiosPreferences = NSClassFromString(@"RadiosPreferences");
id radioPreferences = [[RadiosPreferences alloc] init];
[radiosPreferences setAirplaneMode:YES]; // Turns airplane mode on