info from discontinued iphone app

[BradleyinDC]

Help I need to get old car maintainance records out of iCloud from a discontinued app.

 

[rambo47]

I don't know a way to get data from the cloud - it's usually just a backup to restore the app used to create it. The only way I know would be to use the old app to open the records and use copy/paste into a Word document.

 

[BradleyinDC]

I don't know a way to get data from the cloud - it's usually just a backup to restore the app used to create it. The only way I know would be to use the old app to open the records and use copy/paste into a Word document.

Thanks, but that won't work for me. Emphasis on the discontinued app--it won't update to a current or recent iOS. This is the root of the problem.

 

[NoBoMac]

Per sig, since have a Mac, can try looking under '~/Library/Mobile Documents' to see if a folder there that corresponds to the app.

Might be able to see the folder in the Files app on the phone: some apps will create their sandbox for data and make it visible. For example, a snippet from my phone:



Mac programs like iMazing can make navigable backups of iDevices where one can maybe export whatever sandboxes the apps make.

But in all these (most) cases, files/data might be in a proprietary format, so will need to decode that.

 

[BradleyinDC]

Per sig, since have a Mac, can try looking under '~/Library/Mobile Documents' to see if a folder there that corresponds to the app.

Might be able to see the folder in the Files app on the phone: some apps will create their sandbox for data and make it visible. For example, a snippet from my phone:

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Mac programs like iMazing can make navigable backups of iDevices where one can maybe export whatever sandboxes the apps make.

But in all these (most) cases, files/data might be in a proprietary format, so will need to decode that.

I downloaded iMazing, but the free version didn't do what I needed (that's as far as I got).

 

[NoBoMac]

can try looking under '~/Library/Mobile Documents'

Forgot to mention: this needs to be done via a Terminal window as Finder will "hide" the hidden folders.

 

[BradleyinDC]

Forgot to mention: this needs to be done via a Terminal window as Finder will "hide" the hidden folders.

Thanks, I wasn't finding it under Finder!

More explicit Terminal instructions?

 

[NoBoMac]

cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents
ls

Should list all the subfolders that are iCloud-ed. Rinse repeat for other folders. Put names in double quotes to escape special characters, space, etc. Otherwise will get error messages.

 

[BradleyinDC]

cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents
ls

Should list all the subfolders that are iCloud-ed. Rinse repeat for other folders. Put names in double quotes to escape special characters, space, etc. Otherwise will get error messages.

Thanks I got a list of lots of stuff but not everything (I know some current app info is missing) and not what I'm looking for--but this is the closest I've got!

 

[NoBoMac]

Might help to provide the app name as maybe someone else has gone through this, but otherwise, that's the basics/options of trying to locate where the data is.

And as mentioned earlier, when found, bigger issue is trying to get data in some usable form. For example, app might be using an SQLite database to store info, so will need SQL skills to extract the records.

Might be out of luck at this point unfortunately.