News & Announcements
We share content on product tips and updates, as well as the occasional paper from the engineering and product teams.
Saving a lifetime of messages: how Hanna Aase uses iPhone Backup Extractor
Hanna Aase is a Norwegian entrepreneur, founder and tech for social good advocate who used the iPhone Backup Extractor to save and back up 30,000 messages from her iPhone, including voicemails from her grandmother.
Alexandra Petrus
What's new in iOS 10?
Launched at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco, iOS 10 developer preview comes with a lot of improvements. Read more on our favourites.
Alexandra PetrusReincubate’s iCloud API & iPhone Backup Extractor recover iOS 10 iCloud backup data
We are pleased to write that through our extensive research and preparatory work, we've shipped updates to the API today to fully support the iOS 10 developer release. There are no client-side changes that you will need to make for this.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
App data in the real world: aggregating cloud photos & iMessage
The new Everalbum Explore platform -- available on iOS and Android -- aggregates photo content from a deep range of sources, using app data feeds into services including Dropbox, Google Photos, Instagram, Facebook, iMessage, Flickr, and Amazon.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
CIA ramps investment in critical app data access
We cover the CIA’s increasing interest in accessing and interpreting app data for matters of global intelligence and security. All four of the companies disclosed have mechanisms for pulling data from platforms including Twitter.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
The war over app data: Twitter vs US law enforcement
Twitter acted in early May to restrict access by US law enforcement and security services to access its firehose of user app data. Twitter doesn’t provide this service directly, but rather through a private firm, Dataminr, in which it holds a 5% stake.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
What is app data?
This short guide seeks to explain what each type of app data looks like, and how and where it can be useful.
Aidan FitzpatrickApp data applied: revealing sleep patterns across the world
The BBC recently covered a story on how app data is being used to reveal global sleeping patterns. A team at the University of Michigan have been building Entrain since 2014 to help people overcome jetlag.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
iPhone Backup Extractor supports iOS 9.3
You've heard it from us before: we support all versions of iOS and the iCloud. We have full support for iOS 9.3.
Alexandra PetrusExtracting data from iOS 9 iCloud backups
I’m proud to announce that our company, Reincubate, has scored another first: we’ve released iPhone Backup Extractor 6 with support for iOS 9 iCloud backups. Currently, even Apple don’t support accessing these.
Aidan Fitzpatrick