iPhone Usage

Working with iOS/iPadOS (iPhone or iPad)

Do an iPhone/iPad Backup with iTunes first.

• iPhone backup on Mac: https://support.apple.com/HT211229
• iPhone backup on Windows: https://support.apple.com/HT212156
• iPad backup: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/ipad9a74df05xx/ipados

Encrypted iOS/iPadOS Backup

If you are working on unencrypted iOS/iPadOS backup, skip this

If you want to work on an encrypted iOS/iPadOS Backup, you should install iphone_backup_decrypt from KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt before you run the extract_iphone_media.py.

pip install git+https://github.com/KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt

Extracting

Simply invoke the following command from shell, remember to replace the username and device id correspondingly in the command.

Windows

wtsexporter -i -b "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\[device id]"

Mac

wtsexporter -i -b ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup/[device id]