You can access the data in an encrypted backup, which you can request from an iPhone from Linux using the open source libimobiledevice: https://github.com/libim

You can access the data in an encrypted backup, which you can request from an iPhone from Linux using the open source libimobiledevice: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice Here's an overview of how to remove the various layers of encryption (starting from the backup password): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1498342/how-to-decrypt-an-encrypted-apple-itunes-iphone-backup/13793043#13793043 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1498342/how-to-decrypt-a... And how to do it if you want to access the WhatsApp chat database: https://yasoob.me/posts/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-ios-backup/ https://yasoob.me/posts/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-io... Also some Go tools to inspect iOS encrypted backups https://github.com/dunhamsteve/ios https://github.com/dunhamsteve/ios