
- IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE UPDATE
- IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE ANDROID
- IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE PASSWORD
- IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE PLUS
This can take a while if you have a lot of media files like me. I used iBackup Viewer which was pretty straightforward but there are a lot of folders to choose from so pay attention.
IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE PASSWORD
If you are running iOS 11 and later you can reset your password (but of course I was using an older iOS!) I nearly screwed myself over here as I'd set a password for the encryption ages ago and totally forgot it but managed to guess it.

IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE PLUS
The process has quite a few steps plus I had quite a lot of media in my archives so the process took much longer than expected.

IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE ANDROID
You can use email, Google Drive or Dropbox but the quickest and best way to complete migration is by transferring files from your computer to your Android phone.There are tutorial videos too which are helpful.īelow are some of my tips which you may find useful. My advice first and foremost is that the Wazzap Migrator website provides very detailed (and helpful) steps to follow and I'd recommend paying attention and not trying to do your own thing. All my chats, pics and media are now on my Pixel.
IBACKUP VIEWER SAFE UPDATE
When I dug around I couldn’t find much in the way of alternatives and while the interface might be a bit rough, the functionality is spot-on, and since there’s no other way to get to things like SMS messages and Notes, you might find this a smart investment in data portability after all.Here's my update as promised! I used Wazzap Migrator and though the process can be quite cumbersome, it did indeed work out very nicely. Yes it lets you edit your backup data, which then resyncs and updates what’s on your device, but is it worth $35? You’ll have to decide for yourself. Now here’s the downside: iBackupBot is $34.95, which seems pretty expensive for an app of this nature. Whether you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch (or “iTouch” as I hear a lot of people call them) user, you doubtless have lots of media files on your computer too, and another of the options on the toolbar that lets you browse all your media, with handy previews: You could also do some basic statistical analysis, I suppose, so you can figure out who you text message the most often, but you probably already know that! In the SMS view, the green lines are what I sent, so you can see the dialog.

One of the best features of iBackupBot is that it not only lets you access your SMS message archive, but threads them, newest-to-oldest, so you can even save or print a record of your conversations:

In the actual app it’s not obscured at all) (I’ve blurred a bunch of it so my friends don’t have their phone numbers blasted to a zillion Internet users. You can also access your Address Book list: For example, here’s the one that gets you to where it can show you all the Notes you have on the iPod Touch / iPhone:Ĭlick on it and you’ll looking at your Notes and can easily save or copy them for use in other apps (a feature that is otherwise unavailable in iTunes for some odd reason): The default view is a file browser so it’s pretty geeky:įortunately there’s a toolbar along the top with reasonably understandable icons. Then if you’re like me and have lots of stuff on your Apple iPhone, you’ll sit and watch this for a while as it digs through many megabytes of data, thousands of songs, hundreds of photos, hundreds of SMS text messages, etc etc., to organize it all:įinally, though, you’ll see everything that’s in your backup database, and that’s where it gets pretty darn interesting. Once you’ve found that, launch iBackupBot and select the latest of your backups. C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\MobileSync\Backupīut it might not be: if not, you might need to launch iTunes and look at how its preferences are set to figure out what’s happening.
