How to generate an iOS IPA file with Ionic?

You will need to open the XCode project that is generated for you when you executed the build command and generate the IPA from there using Archive... from the Product menu. In reality though it’s not as simple as that, you’ll need to set up certificates and provisioning profiles first.

Here’s a good place to start: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.3.0/guide_platforms_ios_index.md.html