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Whatsapp Android To iOS Importer
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Can this program be made working with encrypted iOS backups? #39

Open johangroenewold opened 3 years ago

johangroenewold commented 3 years ago

So, I have this kind-of specific situation. I have an iPhone from my employer and it has Remote Management enabled to force employees to set strong passwords and such. However, this 'security feature' also prevents my Mac from creating unencrypted back-ups, stating the administrator won't allow backups without encryption.

Is there a way to make this tool work with encrypted backups, of course providing the user knows the actual password used for encryption?

residentsummer commented 3 years ago

Hi, @johangroenewold !

Short answer

Yes

Long answer

This tool operates on whatsapp database file, pulled from the backup, the rest of the instruction is just how to extract it and put the modified version back. Instead of doing this by hand with console commands (and for free :) ), you can use one of the available iOS backup tools that support encryption. There are some that can read files, not sure about writing.

Also, if you have some programming skills, you can try to use some of the free tools that can work with encrypted iOS backups from other members of github community :)