ljen / iTunes-Backup-Explorer

A graphical tool that can extract files and information from encrypted and non-encrypted iOS backups

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iTunes Backup Explorer

iTunes Backup Explorer is a graphical open-source tool that can show files in iPhone and iPad backups and extract them.

It supports both encrypted and non-encrypted backups, currently from iOS 10.2 onwards.

Most programs that support encrypted backups are either limited trials or expensive. There are apparently only very few open-source projects that target this issue and none that are also useful for the average user.

Credits

I started looking into this after I saw this brilliant answer on StackOverflow by andrewdotn to a question that has already been viewed more than 220.000 times. It explains in detail how iOS backups are structured and how they are encrypted, even providing a working code example.

So a huge thanks to him,

his sources iPhone Data Protection in Depth, iOS Hacker's Handbook, a GitHub comment, the iphone-dataprotection project and the Apple iOS Secutity Guide for iOS 11 (in the Web Archive)

and Forensic Analysis of iTunes Backups by Jack Farley

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A graphical tool that can extract files and information from encrypted and non-encrypted iOS backups

License:MIT License


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