diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 351273e888fa6a778f76a54542911a53eb20de3e..e3c8259a1e29bb93ca045465298ba12831a4cefb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -124,11 +124,11 @@ OCV_OPTION(WITH_GTK            "Include GTK support"                         ON
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_IMAGEIO        "ImageIO support for OS X"                    OFF  IF APPLE)
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_IPP            "Include Intel IPP support"                   OFF  IF (MSVC OR X86 OR X86_64) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_JASPER         "Include JPEG2K support"                      ON   IF (NOT IOS) )
-OCV_OPTION(WITH_JPEG           "Include JPEG support"                        ON   IF (NOT IOS) )
+OCV_OPTION(WITH_JPEG           "Include JPEG support"                        ON)
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_OPENEXR        "Include ILM support via OpenEXR"             ON   IF (NOT IOS) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_OPENGL         "Include OpenGL support"                      OFF  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT APPLE) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_OPENNI         "Include OpenNI support"                      OFF  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
-OCV_OPTION(WITH_PNG            "Include PNG support"                         ON   IF (NOT IOS) )
+OCV_OPTION(WITH_PNG            "Include PNG support"                         ON)
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_PVAPI          "Include Prosilica GigE support"              ON   IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_GIGEAPI        "Include Smartek GigE support"                ON   IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_QT             "Build with Qt Backend support"               OFF  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS) )
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsGrfmt.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsGrfmt.cmake
index 59881699197d3328aa1757eeca745a79a0a97a06..08af604ae9685c430b9a36ddd8095493f4b58510 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsGrfmt.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsGrfmt.cmake
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ if(NOT TIFF_VERSION_STRING AND TIFF_INCLUDE_DIR)
 endif()
 
 # --- libjpeg (optional) ---
-if(WITH_JPEG)
+if(WITH_JPEG AND NOT IOS)
   if(BUILD_JPEG)
     ocv_clear_vars(JPEG_FOUND)
   else()
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ if(NOT JASPER_VERSION_STRING)
 endif()
 
 # --- libpng (optional, should be searched after zlib) ---
-if(WITH_PNG)
+if(WITH_PNG AND NOT IOS)
   if(BUILD_PNG)
     ocv_clear_vars(PNG_FOUND)
   else()
diff --git a/ios/build_framework.py b/ios/build_framework.py
index 3f0e85f725c63805fceef98be6d9e42a765770a4..ceef4b71d7e154be0d6313f16e7ac9cbe1ac0e3d 100755
--- a/ios/build_framework.py
+++ b/ios/build_framework.py
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ def put_framework_together(srcroot, dstroot):
     # TODO ...
 
     # make symbolic links
-    os.symlink(dstdir + "/Headers", "Headers")
-    os.symlink(dstdir + "/Resources", "Resources")
-    os.symlink(dstdir + "/opencv2", "opencv2")
     os.symlink("A", "Versions/Current")
+    os.symlink("Versions/Current/Headers", "Headers")
+    os.symlink("Versions/Current/Resources", "Resources")
+    os.symlink("Versions/Current/opencv2", "opencv2")
 
 
 def build_framework(srcroot, dstroot):
diff --git a/modules/world/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/world/CMakeLists.txt
index a75037cfc7bb58ca24701079114364d9b6075e41..23901bf62add258000e25a2b7a9807d5308ea06f 100644
--- a/modules/world/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/world/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,35 @@ foreach(m ${OPENCV_MODULE_${the_module}_DEPS})
   endforeach()
 endforeach()
 
+
+macro(ios_include_3party_libs)
+  foreach(l ${ARGN})
+    add_dependencies(${the_module} ${l})
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "<MODULE_NAME>" "${l}" objpath1 "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/3rdparty/${l}/${objpath0}")
+    file(GLOB sources ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/${l}/*.c)
+    foreach(srcname ${sources})
+      if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${srcname}")
+        file(RELATIVE_PATH srcname "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/${l}" "${srcname}")
+      endif()
+
+      string(REPLACE ".." "__" srcname "${srcname}")
+      get_filename_component(srcname_we ${srcname} NAME_WE)
+      string(REGEX REPLACE <SRC_NAME_WE> "${srcname_we}" objpath2 "${objpath1}")
+      string(REGEX REPLACE <RELATIVE_SRC_NAME> "${srcname}" objpath3 "${objpath2}")
+      
+      list(APPEND objlist "\"${objpath3}\"")
+    endforeach() # (srcname ${sources})
+  endforeach() 
+endmacro()
+
+if(IOS AND WITH_PNG)
+  ios_include_3party_libs(zlib libpng)
+endif() 
+
+if(IOS AND WITH_JPEG)
+  ios_include_3party_libs(libjpeg)
+endif() 
+
 string(REPLACE ";" " " objlist "${objlist}")
 
 if(have_cfg)