Important iTunes Backup File Paths

General File Paths of iTunes Backups

iOS backups created with iTunes locate in

%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

on Windows, and

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

on macOS by default.

But all filenames are unreadable like

"000e2a9821065d54c80732898cf67ed8c2e86766" 

except four important meta files: "Info.plist", "Manifest.plist", "Manifest.mbdb" and "Status.plist".

Here is a list of some filenames for important iOS backup data.

Contacts

There are two files related to contacts in iOS backup:

31bb7ba8914766d4ba40d6dfb6113c8b614be442  

AddressBook.sqlitedb contains the major information of all contacts in the iOS Backup.

cd6702cea29fe89cf280a76794405adb17f9a0ee 

AddressBookImages.slitedb contains image data for the contacts.

Messages

iPhone messages and iMessages are stored in a sqlite format database file with file name

3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28

Call History

iPhone call history also stored in a sqlite format file, the actual file name on computer is

5a4935c78a5255723f707230a451d79c540d2741

Photos

12b144c0bd44f2b3dffd9186d3f9c05b917cee25

contains all photos information of the backup.

Home Screen and Lock Screen Wallpaper

Home screen wallpaper is stored in file

b97b0c3bc8a6bb221d0849b450fbd92b5d06a301

and lock screen wallpaper file is

86736007d0166a18c646c567279b75093fc066fe

Above are some general files for most important data. To learn more filenames, please install and run iBackup Viewer, then switch to "Raw Data" in left side navigation pane and find the expected file in file list.