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    Proxyman

    Intro

    Great tool for 21st century with proper macos UI mechanisms.
    This works 100% of the time for getting my iOS or networking debugging things work for me.

    Official documentation

    docs.proxyman.io

    SSL proxying

    docs | ssl-proxying

    Breakpoints support
    docs | breakpoint-for-ios

    Open source CLI tool

    mitmproxy

    brew install mitmproxy

    tvOS

    If you want to configure for a physical tvOS apple tv 4K, you need few things to set it up.

    Steps

    • download proxyman downloadedProfile.pem from “http://proxy.man/ssl” & rename it to downloadedProfile.cer
    • Apple configurator -> File -> New Profile -> Name the profile "customTVOS_proxy" -> Select "Wifi", click "Configure"
    • Fill your usual Wifi SSID (name: WifiName) & make sure Proxy Setup is selected to manual with provided ProxyMan Server and Port address eg. 10.0.0.22:9090
    • select “Certificates” → Click “Configure” → upload the downloadedProfile.cer file that you previously downloaded & renamed.
    • save the profile tvOSProxyProfile.mobileconfig at accessible location & open a terminal at that $pwd
    • Run a temporary http server using node
    • Make sure appleTV is on the same Wifi network 2.4 or 5Ghz and open Settings -> General -> Privacy & Security -> Share Apple TV Analytics. Press apple tv remote physical button Play/Pause new window will appear.
    • Select Add Profile, add the mac http server ip address with port and local file complete path. eg: http://10.0.0.22:8033/tvOSProxyProfile.mobileconfig (easier to copy paste from mac shared clipboard to iPhone + tv remote Input prompt)
    • Select "Install", few times and then we need to trust the certificate by heading over to Settings -> General -> About -> Certificate Trust Settings -> Click on Proxy Profile -> “Continue”.
    • You may need to reenter your WiFi credentials again since for me it got disconnected once with tvOS 17.0 - apple TV 4K 2023.

    Now you can see the logs of Apple tv 4K on Proxy man. I believe similar steps could be performed for Charles proxy