iPhone Backup Extractor
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Hot on the heels of last week's usability updates to iPhone Backup Extractor, we're releasing an update that substantially sharpens up the images in the macOS version. Oh, and it resolves a few niggling issues, too. We hope you enjoy it.

• Improvement Many of the graphics in the macOS version have been made much sharper. Woohoo!
• Improvement Graphics used in the previewers for unreadable files have been overhauled and look much nicer.
• Improvement The Mac version of iPhone Backup Extractor now has lovely crisp icons in "Expert mode", just like it does on Windows.
• Improvement We've updated a number of internal components behind the scenes. Nothing to see here, please move along.
• Fix We've sorted out a crash that could happen on macOS Catalina when run as a non-admin user.
• Fix We've solved an issue where group messages could be missing from previews. This was triggered by the presence of genuinely empty group conversations elsewhere in the backup. Which is a pretty odd thing, to be fair. 🤷‍♂️
• Fix iPhone Backup Extractor could crash in an odd way if it was unable to report some analytical data. Sorry about that. No reason why you can't run it entirely offline. You do you!

We've got a lovely release to announce today. 7.7.2.2167 includes a number of common-sense fixes to make iPhone Backup Extractor more intuitive, and clearer than ever. 👩‍🏫

• Improvement The activation window makes is a lot clearer how to create a free account if you don't already have one.
• Improvement The dialog for backup passwords is now clearer, and links to a great resource we have for learning more about backup passwords.
• Improvement We've made some tweaks to the "Getting started" view, making it clearer how to get up and running quickly
• Improvement We've tweaked the wording in the permissions dialog that new users see, making it clearer how to grant access to the default iPhone backup location.
• Improvement The app now provides much clearer guidance to Windows users working with HEIF files without the correct codecs installed.
• Improvement Relative paths are now supported in our rictl command-line tool.
• Fix As it should, preview mode will let you choose which 4 items you'd like to extract if you're on the free version of iPhone Backup Extractor. We'd accidentally broken this in a prior release, meaning users were getting an arbitrary selection of 4 items each time. Sorry!
• Fix File selection dialogs now correctly say "Save" rather than "Open". 😅
• Fix We've solved a curious issue whereby loading very unusual contact images could cause the app to crash.

Hot on the heels of our 7.7 release and the command-line functionality we introduced in that, we're adding another new feature: automated extraction of browser history, and a neat previewer to visualise browser history from with iPhone Backup Extractor. Please let us know how you get on with it. 🙂

• Feature Browser history data is now available from the overview and preview screens, and can be exported easily.
• Improvement We renamed the "Manage password" button for devices connected over USB.
• Fix We've resolved two edge-cases whereby WhatsApp or Viber data extraction could fail. They were unrelated. Although they're related now in the sense that they're both solved. Happy days.
• Fix Somehow our dialog for password management was showing passwords as they were entered. We've just fixed this.

We've been gearing up for our 7.7 release, and here it is: today we're shipping a big new feature in iPhone Backup Extractor: command-line support. iPhone Backup Extractor is now bundled with a free command-line tool named rictl for working with iOS backups and devices. ✍️

• Feature rictl released and shipped with iPhone Backup Extractor for command-line access to iOS backups and devices. Check out its documentation to learn more. You can get started with the new Scripting menu in Preferences.
• Feature iPhone Backup Extractor will now let you change or remove your iPhone backup password. You can do this with Utilities → Change backup password.
• Improvement Voicemail CSV exports now use ROWID instead of remote_uid after user requests. We hope this helps!

We're thrilled to be releasing iPhone Backup Extractor 7.6.9.2102 today. It's got a bunch of updates.

• Fix Voicemail extraction to CSV has received some attention, making the FileName field more useful when connecting CSV records to voicemail audio files.
• Fix Squashed a bug whereby if you removed and readded a backup, it might not show in the navigation.
• Fix Fixed a crash when the default backup directory is linked to an invalid folder.
• Fix Fixed Windows issue where symlink to alternate backup directory contains a space.
• Fix Fixed "retry" getting clipped on the overview screen.
• Fix Handfuls of updates and fixes ready for our next feature release.

Today's build doesn't include much that we're talking about, although it's got a big new feature for our beta testers. We'll tell you all about this in our upcoming iPhone Backup Extractor 7.7 release. Watch this space.

• Feature Something's changed in the "Preferences" tab. 🧐

We'd like to wish our American friends a very happy Independence Day today. Here in the UK we've no hard feelings, although it is a pity we have to pack our own teabags when we travel to see you. 🤷‍♂️ We're celebrating in our own way, with a new update to iPhone Backup Extractor: 7.6.17.2042. What's new?

• Improvement We've made some changes to how we handle password validation on backups made from iOS 10.2 and newer. Yes, that includes iOS 13.
• Feature We're including a major hidden feature that we're going to be inviting some of our beta testers to try out. If you'd like to be one of them please let us know! We're expecting everyone will be getting access to this in the coming weeks.

We're excited to be releasing a bit set of patches and improvements today: better support for corrupt backups, and a little bit more for iOS 13.

• Improvement On macOS, the image previewer now shows HEIC on High Sierra and above, and we've stopped Windows machines from endlessly showing a loading spinner or saying "missing file".
• Improvement The recordings previewer sorts voice notes by date.
• Improvement We added support for most iOS 13 data in our last release, and have included support for accessing iOS 13 devices over USB on macOS in this build. Windows support is already there in the prior releases.
• Fix Restored the ability to load incomplete encrypted backups which are missing an Info.plist.
• Fix Fixed an issue where USB backups might fail on Chinese systems.
• Fix Added a number of minor USB enhancements.
• Fix Resolved a curious bug where iPhone Backup Extractor's window would grow in width when opening Notes previews with image attachments.
• Fix We've solved a very infrequent issue affecting loading of photo albums.
• Fix We've resolved an issue loading Plists that are structurally invalid.
• Fix We've resolved a bug with the WeChat extractor, where it might consume a lot of disk space during extraction.
• Fix We've resolved a rare issue where SMS extraction might fail if a particular type of Digital Touch image was present.

Happy WWDC week! We've been in San Jose with Apple's team learning about iOS 13 and what's new in macOS Catalina. Here's an update to iPhone Backup Extractor to support some of the new things in iOS 13.

• Improvement We've added support for messages, notes and recordings on iOS 13, and for iPadOS. We've a little more to do for Screen Time passcodes, and we'll roll that into a release soon. 😀
• Improvement iPhone Backup Extractor is now notarized on macOS. This is a change that's been coming for a while, and will be required on macOS Catalina. As part of this, we're leaving macOS 10.9 behind, and supporting only 10.10 and above from now on. Older versions will still work with earlier releases.

We usually ship updates to our Windows and macOS apps in sync, but this week we're shipping 7.6.14.1866 is a special treat just for our Mac users.

• Improvement We've made some changes to how we prepare iPhone Backup Extractor for distribution. And now we've distributed those changes to you. Hurrah!
• Fix We show the macOS permissions dialog more frequently, rather than failing when permission is unavailable. Makes sense, right?
• Fix We've resolved a problem whereby a user on a fresh install of macOS with no backups would get a nonsense "Accessing backup failed" message when they ran iPhone Backup Extractor for the first time.

It's May Day! The return of spring, and time for us to release iPhone Backup Extractor 7.6.13.1841. Here's what's new:

• Feature What's that, rich support for iMessage attachments being rendered as they are by the iPhone? Yes, that's it! We've overhauled how we show iMessage attachments, to make them crisper (and more useful) than ever.
• Fix We've resolved a crash that could happen on Mojave when a backup had never been taken, and permissions hadn't been granted.
• Fix Fixed occasionally inaccurate recording dates.
• Fix We now store additional metadata in the iOS backups that iPhone Backup Extractor creates.

We're excited to be shipping iPhone Backup Extractor 7.6.12.1784 today. What's new? Read on, dear reader:

• Improvement Screen Time passcode recovery is now much faster in a number of different ways. Happy days!
• Improvement We've tweaked the icons shown in iPhone Backup Extractor's overview to be more appropriately sized on Windows.
• Fix We've found we degraded the info view that was shown for a backup. We've correctly restored some of that information, and there's more to come.
• Fix It's niche, but we care: we there was a bug for SMS and contacts extraction from iOS 1, 2 and 3 backups. Fixed now! Similarly, we've resolved a problem for WhatsApp extraction that was affecting iOS 5 and iOS 7 backups.
• Fix We've improved accuracy on recovered note dates.
• Fix We no longer create a temporary folder with a misspelling in its name. 🙄
• Fix Some users were getting error 0x64 when trying to a recover a Screen Time passcode after a device had been reset (with "Erase all content and settings. We've solved that.

Today's release of iPhone Backup Extractor resolves a handful of issues.

• Fix Invalid symlinks in the backup path are handled properly.
• Fix Screen Time passcode recovery works for devices which hadn't made a backup before. We'd introduced a problem here in the prior build. Sorry.
• Fix We've tweaked the wording on the "welcome" screen, and adjusted a few pixels.
• Fix We've zapped duplicate recovered notes; you shouldn't see them now, and we've also improved the accuracy of notes recovery.
• Fix We've resolved an issue in exports of KML location data. Google Earth Pro loves our exports now.
• Fix We handle changing the default iTunes backup location better now, when another process has locked the folder.

• Feature Who'd have thunk it? iPhone Backup Extractor can now create backups for you, and you don't need iTunes. If you also run iTunes, you'll see we create these in "archived" format. Of course, you can still do everything you normally would with them.
• Improvement Screen Time passcode recovery is now even faster. Lucky you!
• Fix We've improved the way we monitor for changes to backups. In particular, this prevents a crash that could happen in some cases.
• Fix We handle device disconnection better when it occurs during a backup.

We've got a collection of neat updates to iPhone Backup Extractor for you today.

• Feature We've added "restart" and "shutdown" commands for devices in the "Utilities" pane
• Improvement We've reworked a fair bit of how we handle USB connections to devices; if something goes wrong, the app will be much clearer about what's happened.
• Improvement Improved handling of Screen Time passcode recovery. Similar to the above, if something goes wrong, we'll explain more clearly.
• Improvement We've simplified how we show licensing options to users.
• Improvement We've totally replaced the permissions window that's shown to users on macOS Mojave.
• Improvement We've updated the sample backup included with iPhone Backup Extractor.
• Fix We broke scrolling in the left-hand navigation in the last build. Sorry. This update fixes that!

Today we're launching a neat feature: automatically changing your iTunes backup location. 🎉 If you'd like to store your backups under a different folder, or on a network drive or in Dropbox, it's now easily possible. We've rolled this into the free edition of iPhone Backup Extractor, so anyone can take advantage of it, and we've got a support page explaining more about how this works.

• Feature Easily change your iTunes backup folder if you run out of disk space or wish to store your backups on another drive.
• Fix We've solved an issue affecting some macOS users with no backups.
• Fix We've added a minor patch for WhatsApp and contacts extraction.

We'd like to welcome iPhone Backup Extractor 7.6.7.1676 today. What's new? Let's see:

• Improvement We've tidied up the left-hand navigation bar and added a nice clear "Add data" button to the top of the app's window. This lets you add iCloud accounts or iTunes backup search locations. Convenient, eh?
• Improvement We've sped up the transition in and out of "Forensics mode". If you want to see for yourself, this is an option you can enable in preferences.
• Improvement Where iCloud note attachments can't be recovered, we explain why.
• Improvement We've added support for location attachments in WhatsApp -- and linked them up to Apple Maps (on macOS) and Google Maps (on Windows). Hurrah!

Today's release is a Windows-only update, fixing a pair of USB issues that some users ran into. We're sorry about that!

• Improvement We've improved how we detect USB issues so that this doesn't happen again, and is better handled if anything odd happens.
• Fix Prevented the app from crashing when connecting a new USB device under some circumstances.
• Fix Solved a crash when timing out connecting to a USB device.

It's release time again for us here at Reincubate HQ. Today's release has a handful of neat improvements and fixes. It looks like we're going to drop a new feature next week, and we're all tingling with excitement here.

• Improvement Contact photos are now shown in the contacts previewer. Happy day!
• Improvement USB devices now display with a pane making it clearer a backup is required for data access, with Screen Time passcode recovery moved to the new "Utilities" pane.
• Improvement The Screen Time passcode recover wizard will automatically close when the device disconnects.
• Improvement When "Forensics mode" is enabled, each message will display both the sender and the verbose date it was sent.
• Fix We've resolved a nasty crash bug affecting untrusted iOS 7 devices.
• Fix We've resolved some weirdness that could be encountered by toggling "Forensics mode" on and off whilst previewing messages. Not all weirdness is a good thing.
• Fix We've fixed a bug with message attachments when being exported into HTML. Caused a problem with some location data for some users.
• Fix Fixed a crash if there's a space at the end of your iCloud username. I mean, really? Who doesn't have a space at the end of their iCloud account? 🤯

We've got a real humdinger of a release for you today with a host of improvements to call history, notes and message extraction.

• Feature iPhone Backup Extractor now exports notes into a lovely PDF format, replacing the HTML format we previously used. PDF works better for preserving the flow of your notes, and we're able to present attachments and embedded data in a more coherent way.
• Feature Externally-hosted notes are now exported. Store your iPhone's notes in Gmail? Not a problem.
• Feature Call history previewers and exports now include bandwidth used in Facetime calls.
• Improvement Forensics mode now applies a number of formatting changes to notes, and uses an unambiguous date format across the board.
• Improvement CSV exports of contacts now have better-formatted numbers and contact names, and we've added call types.
• Improvement PDF exports of messages have been enhanced to resemble iPhone messages more closely.
• Fix Our note previewer now shows the full note body along with modification dates.
• Fix Messages with image attachments sometimes included curious null bytes. We've whacked them. Whack!