iPhone Backup Extractor Notes de version · macOS

We've just launched version 3 of the award-winning iPhone Backup Extractor. For those of you not familiar with iPhone Backup Extractor, it provides a way to recover information from the iPhone or iPad backup files that are automatically created when you sync your device with iTunes.

"But what use is that?", I hear you ask. Well if you lose or damage your phone then the only official way to recover the lost information is to sync your new phone. But in order to do this you've first got to buy a new phone and then hope that the restore process works properly (which is by no means guaranteed). And what if you've already got information on the new phone that you wish to keep (the Apple restore process wipes out anything already on the device)?

In those cases your only hope is to recover critical data from an existing iPhone backup file. And that's where iPhone Backup Extractor comes in. Since we launched the software in early 2009 we've helped thousands of people to recover data ranging from priceless family photos to business-critical contact data.

And with our latest update we've now added location extraction. If you've been following the recent newspaper reports then you'll know that it's been discovered that iPhone devices keep a record of where they've been. With iPhone Backup Extractor 3 you can retrieve this information as a KML file which can then be imported into Google Earth. Why not give it a go - you may be surprised just how accurate it can be!

As always you can download iPhone Backup Extractor for free.

Today's releases sees full iOS 4.3 support and a whole bunch of further improvements to exported contacts.

Many people use our application to recover or move their contacts from their iPhone or iTunes via the iTunes backup files. We offer two ways of extracting the data so it can be moved to contact manager applications like Outlook, Entourage or Gmail.

One of these ways is with CSV files, which can be exported well into any of these systems. The second is via vCard (`.vcf` files); we export vCards because they're easy to use and familiar to many of our users. However we have found that Outlook in particular has trouble opening single `.vcf` files containing more than one contact.

To remedy this, we've just launched an extra option to use when exporting contacts. Contacts can now be exported, split over many vCard files, and this is now the default. Options for CSV and "one big vCard" are still available in the top menu as before. These are saved into a "Contacts" folder at the location chosen in the application.

Whoops! In yesterday's release we broke listing of files for restoration. This new release fixes that.

Following popular demand, iPhone Backup Extractor is now available with a point-and-click interface. It works well on Windows, OS X and Linux (via mono or Wine), and can rapidly retrieve backed-up pictures, AppStore app data, SMS messages, and the rest.

The first iPhone Backup Extractor release. If you've found you have the need to retrieve files from an iPhone backup but cannot, you might want to have a look at this.