This article will help you find files belonging to lớn a particular ứng dụng inside an iPhone backup. It"ll also help you build a better understanding of how files & folders are arranged on iOS.
The simplest approach for recovering files from an tiện ích ios backup is lớn use iPhone Backup Extractor: the không lấy phí edition will help you find and extract the files you need, as it can vày so without you needing khổng lồ know the detail in this article. If you’d lượt thích to bởi vì that, you’ll find we’ve got a number of handy guides shown in the đứng top menu of this site, which will guide you through that process.
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If you’d like to dig deeper and get technical, we’ll giới thiệu the locations used by some popular applications, and explain why they use them.
Understanding hashed tệp tin names in quả táo backups
When an iTunes or an iCloud backup is performed for your iPhone, ipad or iPod Touch, important data is saved into various files within the backup folder.
The filenames are encoded so they appear as strings of letters & numbers if you access the backup folder, using what is known as a hex-encoded SHA-1 hash. In many versions of the iPhone operating system the same names are used.
Here are some of the vi xử lý core SQLite database files found in the iTunes backup folder. The tệp tin names are the same for both iTunes & iCloud backups.
iOS 16, 15 & 14 iPhone backup tệp tin locations
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Reminders | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.sqlite | ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c |
| Notes | NoteStore.sqlite | 4f98687d8ab0d6d1a371110e6b7300f6e465bef2 |
| Call history | call_history.db | 2b2b0084a1bc3a5ac8c27afdf14afb42c61a19ca |
| Call history | CallHistory.storedata | 5a4935c78a5255723f707230a451d79c540d2741 |
| Locations | consolidated.db | 4096c9ec676f2847dc283405900e284a7c815836 |
| Web history | History.db | 1a0e7afc19d307da602ccdcece51af33afe92c53 |
| Voicemail | voicemail.db | 992df473bbb9e132f4b3b6e4d33f72171e97bc7a |
| Photos | Photos.sqlite | 12b144c0bd44f2b3dffd9186d3f9c05b917cee25 |
| Wallpaper (home screen) | HomeBackground.cpbitmap | b97b0c3bc8a6bb221d0849b450fbd92b5d06a301 |
| Wallpaper (lock screen) | LockBackground.cpbitmap | 86736007d0166a18c646c567279b75093fc066fe |
iOS 13, 12 và 11 iPhone backup file locations
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Reminders | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.sqlite | ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c |
| Notes | NoteStore.sqlite | 4f98687d8ab0d6d1a371110e6b7300f6e465bef2 |
| Call history | call_history.db | 2b2b0084a1bc3a5ac8c27afdf14afb42c61a19ca |
| Call history | CallHistory.storedata | 5a4935c78a5255723f707230a451d79c540d2741 |
| Locations | consolidated.db | 4096c9ec676f2847dc283405900e284a7c815836 |
| Web history | History.db | e74113c185fd8297e140cfcf9c99436c5cc06b57 |
| Voicemail | voicemail.db | 992df473bbb9e132f4b3b6e4d33f72171e97bc7a |
| Photos | Photos.sqlite | 12b144c0bd44f2b3dffd9186d3f9c05b917cee25 |
| Wallpaper (home screen) | HomeBackground.cpbitmap | b97b0c3bc8a6bb221d0849b450fbd92b5d06a301 |
| Wallpaper (lock screen) | LockBackground.cpbitmap | 86736007d0166a18c646c567279b75093fc066fe |
iOS 10, 9, 8 & 7 iPhone backup file locations
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Reminders | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.sqlite | ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c |
| Call history | call_history.db | 2b2b0084a1bc3a5ac8c27afdf14afb42c61a19ca |
| Call history | CallHistory.storedata | 5a4935c78a5255723f707230a451d79c540d2741 |
| Locations | consolidated.db | 4096c9ec676f2847dc283405900e284a7c815836 |
| Photos | Line.sqlite | 2d711a1f5613f5259730b98328a3f7e816698f88 |
The paths to lớn the WhatsApp, Snapchat, Kik, Viber và WeChat databases are mentioned in the table below. These filenames are available for ios 8 & 9 but have different names for the older versions of iOS.
| App Domain/net.whatsapp.WhatsApp/, Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite | 1b6b187a1b60b9ae8b720c79e2c67f472bab09c0, 275ee4a160b7a7d60825a46b0d3ff0dcdb2fbc9d, 7c7fba66680ef796b916b067077cc246adacf01d | |
| Snapchat | App Domains/com.toyopagroup.picaboo/, Documents/chats.plist (private messages) or stories.plist (public snaps) | 1cd3cd2b412f7b045dd479b617cb2a4f99ffdfee, 7cdb9af6c5352b97cc0f87369df43c49a45c99f3 |
| Kik | App Domain/group.com.kik.chat/, cores/private/…/kik.sqlite | 8e281be6657d4523710d96341b6f86ba89b56df7 |
| Viber | App Domain/com.viber/, Documents/Contacts.data | b39bac0d347adfaf172527f97c3a5fa3df726a3a |
| App Domain/com.tencent.xin/, Documents/DB/MM.sqlite | (Varies dynamically) | |
| Line | Photos.sqlite | 12b144c0bd44f2b3dffd9186d3f9c05b917cee25 |
iOS 6 iPhone backup filenames
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Reminders | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.sqlite | ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c |
| Call history | call_history.db | 2b2b0084a1bc3a5ac8c27afdf14afb42c61a19ca |
| Locations | consolidated.db | Removed from iTunes backup, not iOS |
iOS 5 iPhone backup filenames
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Reminders | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.sqlite | ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c |
| Call history | call_history.db | 2b2b0084a1bc3a5ac8c27afdf14afb42c61a19ca |
| Locations | consolidated.db | Removed from iTunes backup, not iOS |
iOS 4 iPhone backups filenames
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.sqlite | ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c |
| Call history | call_history.db | 2b2b0084a1bc3a5ac8c27afdf14afb42c61a19ca |
| Locations | consolidated.db | 4096c9ec676f2847dc283405900e284a7c815836 |
iOS 3 và 2 iPhone backup filenames
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | 31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 2041457d5fe04d39d0ab481178355df6781e6858 |
| Notes | notes.db | 740b7eaf93d6ea5d305e88bb349c8e9643f48c3b |
| Call history | call_history.db | ff1324e6b949111b2fb449ecddb50c89c3699a78 |
iOS 1 iPhone backup filenames
| SMS | sms.db | 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 |
| Contacts | AddressBook.sqlitedb | adb8c77534444e97c31ff15924d50f3ed1fbd3b1 |
| Calendar | Calendar.sqlitedb | 14ee8cdc3e6e0220399ff210246e1c92b7df89a0 |
| Notes | notes.db | 740b7eaf93d6ea5d305e88bb349c8e9643f48c3b |
| Call history | call_history.db | a49bfab36504be1bf563c1d1813b05efd6076717 |
As you’ve seen, it’s rather difficult to work with files named lượt thích this. If you"d lượt thích an easier way khổng lồ tell what"s in your iTunes or iCloud backup, we provide a tool that does all this decoding for you. Take a look at iPhone Backup Extractor.
Understanding expert mode and iOS domains
When building apps for iOS, authors have a number of decisions khổng lồ make around how & where they store data. (We’ve written separately on the trade-offs ứng dụng authors face in deciding where to store user data.) The best way to lớn explore và build familiarity where each phầm mềm stores its files in tiện ích ios is khổng lồ use the không lấy phí edition of iPhone Backup Extractor. If you load it up, select a backup in the left-hand navigation menu, và then choose “Expert Mode” from the main part of the screen, you’ll be presented with a list of around 18 folders, likely beginning with “Application Groups”. Strictly speaking, these top-level groupings are known as “Domains”.
Many domains are only tangentially used by apps. For instance, the “Keyboard” domain may have some data from third-party keyboards, but not from regular apps.
Some domains -- such as “Media” và “Camera Roll” -- are used heavily by the built-in Messages & Camera apps. However, it’s the “Application Groups” and “Applications” domains that we’re most interested in when tracking down data from third-party apps.
What’s in a namespace?
If you expand the “Applications” tên miền to các mục the folders it contains, you’ll see a number of strangely named folders. Here’s an example:
com.apple.Healthcom.burbn.instagramcom.facebook.Messengersnapchat.picaboocom.spotify.client
These folders are the primary place for an tiện ích to store its data, và they’re usually named using the same format. Back in 1996, Sun Microsystems published a programming language named Java. Java’s documentation laid out a way for third-party software publishers lớn publish their software without it conflicting with other authors" software. The trick was lớn take the name of the company’s site -- such as apple.com -- và to reverse it, before adding the name of the product. Thus, Apple’s Health app falls under com.apple.Health, and iPhone Backup Extractor rightly belongs under com.aryannations88.com.iPhoneBackupExtractor. These names became known as “namespaces”, và Sun published a number of additional rules for them.
Apple adopted this as a best practice when designing iOS. Of course, the naming standard is only a guideline. As you can see in the example of Snapchat (snapchat.picaboo), not everyone plays by the same rules. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but consistency can be helpful when one is trying to lớn recover data!
In some cases, an app’s namespace can reveal an interesting historical quirk. Instagram’s namespace is com.burbn.instagram because, well… back in 2010, Instagram was known as Burbn.
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Where vì chưng popular tiện ích ios apps store their data?
The following table shows the namespaces for a number of popular game ios apps. Don’t forget, iPhone Backup Extractor has this menu built into it (and it knows about the changes between different versions of the apps, and of iOS), so it always knows where to lớn look when assisting you with recovering ios data.
| com.facebook.Facebook, com.facebook.Messenger | |
| com.burbn.instagram | |
| Snapchat | snapchat.picaboo |
| Messages | Home/Library/SMS |
| Spotify | com.spotify.client |
| Skype | com.skype.skype |
| Shazam | com.shazam.Shazam |
If you’d like to know where a particular ứng dụng stores its data, & it’s not on this list, why not tweet us
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