Thursday, October 30, 2014

how do I select message data from my iPhone backup?

don't worry, it's easy (promise)

Messages on the iPhone are stored in a sqllite file inside of the backup. If you have no idea what a sqllite file is, well, then you have a little more homework to do, namely install sqllite so you can... read a sqllite file. :)

Once you have that installed, you need to grab the file within the latest subdirectory you can find inside the directory Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup/ called 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28. This file has your texts in it. I suggest you copy it somewhere else in case you corrupt it by mistake using sqllite. Once you have it, just run sqllite [your backup filename] to load the data.

getting the data

The following query will retrieve the texts stored in this file, in a nice pipe-delimited format:

If there's more data you're looking for, this will tell you the columns in the table (sqllite doesn't use desc or describe):

The output you get should be usable in Excel or any other number of tools if you want a different backup of your texts.

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