IMG4 File Format

There is an img4 file (sep-firmware.img4) found in /usr/standalone/firmware on iOS 7.0 for the [iPhone 5s]] and newer, iPad Air and newer, iPad mini 2 and newer,iPod touch 6G, Apple TV 4G and Apple Watch . The IPSWFILE/Firmware/all_flash/all_flash.DEVICEIDENTIFIER.production for any A7 (64 bit) device and newer as well as Apple Watch, contains an IM4P version of the same file. The file is an DER encoded ASN.1 object and structured as follows:

Header

30 - type tag indicating SEQUENCE
8  - ?
3  - 2,3,4 length in octets of value that follows (length of next value; size of file)
x octets - size of file from here
16 - indicating an IA5String to follow
04 - length in octets of IA5String that follows
49 4D 47 34 - IA5String, the magic "IMG4"
... - sequential data

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