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A cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iOS devices
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Maybe something like https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice? I'm not sure, I haven't tried to do this.
You can access the data in an encrypted backup, which you can request from an iPhone from Linux using the open source libimobiledevice: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice
Here's an overview of how to remove the various layers of encryption (starting from the backup password): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1498342/how-to-decrypt-a...
And how to do it if you want to access the WhatsApp chat database: https://yasoob.me/posts/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-io...
Also some Go tools to inspect iOS encrypted backups https://github.com/dunhamsteve/ios
On Arch Linux, I installed libimobiledevice from source (https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice), as the newest version in Pacman didn't connect to my iPhone.
I also installed usbmuxd via Pacman.
Could you file an issue or pull request about this on the website repo?
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.org/iss...