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How to view or explore iPhone backup files on my PC?
I recently backed up my iPhone to my Windows PC using iTunes as a precaution. I now need to retrieve some specific information from that backup, like old text messages and photos, but I've discovered...
You can't view or explore iPhone backup files on your PC because they're stored in an encrypted, database-like format that Windows can't interpret natively. You need a dedicated iphone backup viewer tool to make sense of them.