How Can I View Iphone Backup Files?

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iPhone and iPad backups contain intimately all your movable data. They are a important way to make sure that your information is safe - lose your headphone, and you'll be up and functional in no time along a new one if you have a recent backup at hand out.

But what if you necessitate to access data from a backup cursorily, without restoring it to a device? Or access and export information that is only available in backups, like Messages? Apple's iOS backup man formatting is not human readable, and you'll need a devoted software package to do barely that. Browsing backups in iMazing is 100% free, so thither's no reason not to give it a go around!

And if you've ready-made your backups with iMazing, you'll have the option to pick out between multiple snapshots of your devices (unlike iTunes, which only keeps one backup per device.)

Before you commence

Download and set u iMazing on your Macintosh or PC computer

What content can I browse in a Backup?

If your device is non attached to your computer past USB or Wi-Fi, you'll nonetheless be able to graze its musical accompaniment.

The following datasets are available when browse a backup:


	Photos
	Messages
	Apps and App Files
	Contacts
	Notes
	Ringtones
	Voicemail and Call History
	Hunting expedition Story and Bookmarks
	Calendars
	Register System

When browsing a backup, you can range your device's Filing system - even if it's encrypted. And there's no need to break your device!

For more than entropy, see:

How to Extract files and data from an encrypted iPhone backup?
What data is included in an iPhone or iPad backup?
How to browse and transfer iPhone files and folder?

Instructions

Browse device backups
Tack backup to current state
Browse iTunes backups in macOS 10.14 Mojave and above

Browse Device Backup

To browse a device's backup:

In the sidebar, quality your device.
In the speed toolbar, flick Backups. This will open the Backups Window.
In the Backups Window, select the backup that you want to browse and click the See button.
You accept now entered your device's Backing Browsing View, and you buttocks opinion its content as it was when the backup was made.

Switch back to current state

To switch back to a twist's on-line state:

In the upper toolbar, click the Backups clit. This will open the Backups Window.
In the Backups Window, select the electric current state and cluck the Reckon button.
You are straightaway back to Device Aspect

💡 Tip: You can buoy quickly switch to the current province by right-clicking your gimmick in the sidebar and selecting Switch to Connected Device

Browsing iTunes backups on macOS 10.14 Mojave and above

With macOS 10.14 Mojave, Orchard apple tree successful your data even more secure aside adding new security department features which guard against malware and spyware accessing your private information. You moldiness now expressly clear apps to access specific data, including iTunes backups.

If you haven't lawful iMazing to access your iTunes backups even, you wish see a button to do then at the stern of iMazing's sidebar:
Click the push button, and iMazing will display instructions to help you add information technology to the list of apps which can access iTunes backups:
Click the Open System of rules Preferences button, and iMazing will open macOS Preferences at the right spot: Security & Privacy, Privacy tab, Full Disk Get at whitelist:
Pawl the lock in the bottom socialist and enter your macOS substance abuser story password to allow changes:
Now simply drag and drop the iMazing ikon from iMazing to the Preferences windowpane as shown below:
macOS will warn you that iMazing must restart for the change to take effect, and offering to quit the app. If you don't have whatever trading operations running, you can quit now, otherwise simply click Later and quit and restart iMazing and iMazing Mini at your contrivance.

Formerly you've authorised iMazing to access iTunes backups, the backups volition appear in iMazing's left sidebar on with devices, in a section labelled Old Backups.

💡 iMazing inevitably to be whitelisted for Full Disk Access in order to access your iTunes backups because there is none better grained setting available. It does non capitalize of that privilege to access any opposite protected information, and can bring perfectly good even if you don't assignment access. You can simply move or imitate your iTunes backups to a location to which macOS does non restrict admittance to, and then open them with iMazing.

💡 Lean: You can naturally rescind permissions at any time: set up the macOS System Preferences app, select Protection & Concealment -> Privacy tablet -> Full Phonograph record Get at, and remove iMazing from the list.

What to keep in mind

In the sidebar, devices registered under the Available Devices section are currently connected, or lav potentially atomic number 4 connected to via Wisconsin-Fi.

Totally other devices listed in the sidebar are not connected. When you select one of those devices, iMazing displays the table of contents of its most Recent epoch backup man. To perspective a different backup for that device, choose one from the Backups Window.

When browsing a backup from the backup list, you'll notice changes in iMazing's port: iMazing's backup browsing view with interface changes highlighted

Sidebar - device is greyed forbidden with a relief connexion icon
Backup lists - button indicates the date and clip of backup
Backup actions are available
Backups details - gimmick thumbnail is in black and white
Magnetic disk utilisation - bar is full and shows how much quad is being used past the backup.