There are plenty of SQLite apps for Windows too if you need one.
#Where to find decipher textmessage files on a mac for mac os#
If you have no SQL experience, it’s not too complicated, but first you will need to download an application that lets you open and read SQLite database files, in the screenshot below I used MesaSQLite for Mac OS X, it’s currently in beta and free to download. You may notice that this file is actually a SQLite database, and the tables can be read and queried like any other database using SQL commands. This will also serve as a backup of the imessage/sms database, which is important in case you somehow mess something up, you won’t compromise the original message backup database. Once you have located this file, make a copy of it to the desktop or some place easier to access. That doesn’t matter much, just get access to this file. mdbackup extension, though if you don’t have extensions enabled you may not see it. Open that directory and look for the following filename: There is usually just one directory in here unless you have multiple devices synced to your computer. You are then going to explore the folders contained within these directories, looking for a randomly generated filename that is really long and full of hexadecimal, like: 9182749a9879a8798a798e98798798f9879877c98798. ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/Īnd the file is located on Windows at (more possible destinations further below in the article for other versions of Windows):Ĭ:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup The file you are looking fo is located at the following location on a Mac: Your SMS/text messages are backed up and buried deep within the standard iPhone backup location. First things first, let’s get to the backup file which contains the texts and imessages.
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