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WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.7.1.304 released

1 improvement

  • We've reduced the time taken during "contacting servers" when using iCloud.

3 fixes

  • We've improved compatibility of the vCard files that iPhone Backup Extractor generates.
  • A bug has been squashed where SMS message times where shown in `GMT` for some users when being exported to HTML.
  • We've made a number of minor iCloud improvements.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.7.0.6 released

Today's release is a big one for the Mac, as we're using a new native technology for the macOS interface. Everything should look crisper and be more responsive. Happy days.

1 feature

  • iPhone Backup Extractor's Mac interface is now fully native.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.6.1.272 released

This a minor update to improve our logging and speed up the process of selecting iCloud backups from the account list.

1 fix

  • Selection of iCloud backups now has less interface lag.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.6.0.268 released

Someday -- years in the future -- your grandchildren will ask you what you were doing when iPhone Backup Extractor `5.6.0.268` was released. "Why, young'un", you'll say, "I was on reincubate.com, reading their change-logs, and I was one of the first users to try it out." You'll thank us later.

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1 improvement

  • We've made a handful of iCloud backup download reliability improvements. We really have. Loads of stuff should be better -- and faster.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.5.11.248 released

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1 feature

  • Sometimes when extracting files we find that a filename that works on your iPhone is too long to work on your PC. Windows, we're looking at you. We've now got a popup message that'll tell you this, and let you rename the file as a consequence.

3 improvements

  • Problems with the iCloud download process are now reported more clearly to users.
  • We now look in more places for WhatsApp data.
  • We've continued to refactor quite a lot of things behind the scenes.

2 fixes

  • We've put another potential "out of memory" error to bed.
  • We've fixed an error that could pop up when seeing the license notification window for parental restrictions passcode recovery.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.5.10.142 released

Today marks another milestone for us: releasing our iCloud functionality for macOS users. Previously, Windows users got all the fun (as it were) back in `4.9.70.0` when we shipped and polished this for them back in August. As of today, both Windows and Mac users are in parity. Other than in exceptional cases, we're aiming to maintain feature parity between both Windows and macOS in future releases. We love them both.

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1 feature

  • iCloud backup is now available for Mac users. Rejoice!

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.4.30.147 released

We're warming up to ship some particularly exciting new stuff in iPhone Backup Extractor, and today's release prepares us better to do that. Let's see what happens!

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1 improvement

  • We've made a behind-the-scenes change to prepare us for trying out some new functionality.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.4.28.119 released

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3 improvements

  • Password entry for encrypted backups should be faster.
  • We've improved the analytical data that our installer collects on its performance.
  • We've also improved vCard extraction to CSV, cleaning up how we show phone number and address types.

5 fixes

  • Sometimes you'd see the year 1901 in an export of data. We actually meant there's no date available fo r that data. Now we do this properly, by leaving the field empty.
  • We've squashed a Unicode issue with contacts on Windows.
  • Extracted files without extensions no longer end with a `.` once extracted. Windows hates this.
  • We've fixed a potential race condition whilst recovering a parental restrictions passcode.
  • We now handle when users try to login with dodgy characters in their username, like semicolons.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.4.26.0 released

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3 fixes

  • Corrupted encrypted backups which are missing their keybags now don't lead to a crash. Instead there's a message explaining what's up.
  • Non-Latin filenames are now normalised into equivalent Latin characters instead of `_` symbols when being extracted to non-Unicode filesystems.
  • We've resolved an "out of memory" crash that could occur during an iCloud backup download.



WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.3.17.0 released

Today's release is a minor update to fix two different types of crash that could occur.

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2 fixes

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when switching between encrypted backups.
  • Fixed a crash that could be triggered by the app view. Oops.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.3.16.0 released

As we continue to build on our iCloud access technology, we're making quite a few changes in the application behind the scenes. This release has a lot of those changes. Like polar bears in snowstorms, you might not see them, but they're there.

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1 improvement

  • Piles of changes in the core of the app, enhancing debugging, testing, logging. We've even changed how we use fonts.

1 fix

  • We've squashed a few other bugs that cropped up with call history handling on iOS 8.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.3.10.0 released

Oh my word! It seems we're shipping new features with every release of iPhone Backup Extractor at the moment. What have we got today? Let's see:

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1 feature

1 improvement

  • We've reduced the complexity of our code for processing download links, and things should be faster now. Also, we'll tell you what's up in more detail if it goes wrong.

2 fixes

  • We ran into and solved some iOS 8 issues, and have since fixed deleted message recovery and calendar extraction. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  • Some "Pro" users who activated offline would see a "Home" screen when using iCloud. That shouldn't. And it's sorted now.


WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.3.1.0 released

It's time for another set of new features for iPhone Backup Extractor. We hope you like them. ❤️

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2 features

  • Expert mode now lets you easily modify and delete files from a backup.
  • iCloud data can now be downloaded by categories. Messages? Sure!

1 improvement

  • Lots and lots of internal changes to how we do things.

1 fix

  • We've fixed a bug with how we handle empty iCloud backup snapshots.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.2.4.0 released

We're releasing a series of updates and improvements to iCloud functionality today. iCloud users within iPhone Backup Extractor should see:

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1 feature

  • Partial downloads can now be resumed. That's neat, isn't it?

3 improvements

  • Better multithreading of downloads. They'll be faster!
  • Download progress is now shown more accurately. We're spoiling you today.
  • We've improved a few parts of our internal analytics system.

1 fix

  • We've resolved a nasty crash for users running hacked up versions of Windows. We don't know why you hack up your Windows installations, but we've got your backs now.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.1.9.0 released

Would you believe it, but today we're shipping a fixing an error in our error handling. Before writing this, we all drew straws to see who'd have to write this, the most embarrassing of release notes. It's me. I'm sorry.

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2 fixes

  • Fix for iCloud error reporting.
  • We'd slipped up with license definition for our "Home" edition. That's fixed now.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.1.6.0 released

Today's release includes functionality to help us better track errors as they occur. This helps us help you. Everyone gets helped!

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1 improvement

  • Improved reporting of issues when working with iCloud.

WindowsmacOS

iPhone Backup Extractor 5.1.5.0 released

iPhone Backup Extractor `5.1.5.0` is a fix roll-up for our iCloud backup access support.

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2 fixes

  • Improvements to concurrency of downloads.
  • Resolved issue with incorrect download size check.
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