Working with iOS/iPadOS (iPhone or iPad)

Do an iPhone/iPad Backup with iTunes/Finder 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

Note

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

Note

You will need to disable the built-in end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp backups. See WhatsApp's FAQ for how to do it.

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]