It does. It's an implementation detail below Core Data. I'm not sure if you are allowed to send raw queries to it. I believe that app developers who want to in

It does. It's an implementation detail below Core Data. I'm not sure if you are allowed to send raw queries to it. I believe that app developers who want to interface directly with SQLite have to use something like FMDB. https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb