Notes from the project: how backups work, how to recover things, how to leave Apple with your data, and the occasional piece on why we build it this way.
A plain-English tour of Manifest.db, domains, and why some data is there and some isn't. No jargon that doesn't earn its keep.
A quiet guide. Where the voice files live, how to find them, and how to keep them when the phone and the person are both gone.
Counterintuitive take: tick the "Encrypt local backup" box. You get more data, not less.
The list of things Apple won't help you take with you — and how to take them anyway.
We're MIT licensed. Here's what that changes about how you should think about trusting us with your backup.
A longer, more personal piece on what it feels like to finally hold years of your own data in a readable form. Not a how-to. A reflection.
What 17,518 extracted messages revealed when analyzed at scale — patterns the subject couldn't see from inside, and what data-as-mirror can show that introspection can't.