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DECIPHER BACKUP BROWSER

View, search, and recover photos in your iPhone backup.
Also recover lost iPhone notes, voice memos, contacts and more.
iOS 18.5 compatible!
Latest update: April 3, 2025 (Release notes)

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Decipher Backup Browser Version 18 Features:

  • Lost your iPhone photos? The free trial will show if you if the lost iPhone pictures and videos are in your backup!
  • Recover iPhone Camera Roll photos, even from broken backups.
  • View and save Photo Stream pictures.
  • View and save text message/iMessage attachments.
  • View Contacts and import them back into your iPhone Contacts app!
  • Save and recover iPhone Voice Memos.
  • View and save iPhone Notes.
  • Recover forgotten iPhone Restrictions passcode!
  • View Snapchat Friends List Metadata. (All Snapchat data is available for free without registering in the trial. See below for more info.)
  • View outgoing email and text message contacts, phone numbers, and email addresses! Works for email, SMS, and iMessage. Works even if the message and contact are deleted!
  • View and save all your iPhone Call log history!
  • View your iPhone Safari browsing history, recent websites, and bookmarks.
  • Recover images/pictures and videos from popular apps like WhatsApp and PhotoVault. (And contact us to suggest others!)
  • No jailbreaking required! (And also works for jailbroken iPhones.)
  • View IMEI and serial number from your backup. Useful if your device is stolen and you need to file a police report. (Available in free trial.)
  • Compatible with backups from iOS 4 and higher, including iOS 18 beta, iOS 17, iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, iOS 13, iOS 12, iOS 11, iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7, iOS 6, iOS 5, or iOS 4.
  • Compatible with all of the latest encrypted backup formats.
  • Supported for Windows 7 and above, including Windows 10 and 11.
  • Supported for macOS Sierra and above, including Sonoma and Sequoia.
  • Each purchase comes with two unique device activations. When you activate a device you can access supported data forever for that specific iPhone or iPad.
  • Software is good for installation on an unlimited amount of computers.
  • There are no recurring monthly fees or subscriptions.
  • All updates to the software are included free with your license.

Click here to see the Decipher Backup Browser FAQ page.

Click here to see the latest Decipher Backup Browser release notes.

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System Requirements

Mac Version

  • macOS 10.12 through 15
    (Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra)
  • iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 18 beta, iOS 17, iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, iOS 13, iOS 12, iOS 11, iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7, iOS 6, iOS 5, or iOS 4

Windows Version

  • Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7
  • iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 18 beta, iOS 17, iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, iOS 13, iOS 12, iOS 11, iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7, iOS 6, iOS 5, or iOS 4

Decipher Backup Browser is software specifically developed to save photos and other files from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch backups to your computer. You can recover photos from the camera roll, photo stream, and other apps, as well as address book contacts, voice memo recordings, notes, and many more files from your iOS backup file. Additionally, Decipher Backup Browser runs completely on your computer, so your data remains private.

Here at Decipher Media, we understand the importance of your data. We love Decipher Backup Browser not only as product, but also for the many opportunities it has provided us to help people restore or access important information. If you have any problems with Decipher Backup Browser, or just have questions about your iPhone data, please feel free to contact us. Before contacting us via the support email, we ask that you read our FAQ since many helpful answers are available here.

Snapchat Data Recovery

As Snap, Inc. makes updates to their app, the data that we can recover in Decipher Backup Browser changes. Currently, no sent "snap" photo data is typically available in Decipher Backup Browser because those photos are not saved to be part of the iTunes backup. Decipher Backup Browser can recover Snapchat text message metadata from backups of Snapchat versions before January 2017. The available metadata is information about messages sent and received, not the pictures themselves. As of January 2017 Snapchat versions, Decipher Backup Browser can only recover friends list metadata from Snapchat backed up information. All Snapchat recovery features in Decipher Backup Browser are fully available in the free trial, without a license code, since every recovery scenario is different and the available data is rapidly changing.



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Average rating: 4.95/5.0 from 19 ratings and 28 reviews.

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George

February 25, 2025 9:13 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Kelly and her team provided great support. Using their tools, I was able to recover thousands of photos that I thought were irretrievably lost. Next time, I'll be more careful about testing iPhone backups before wiping the source device. Thankfully this time, Decipher was around to bail me out!

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terry

October 7, 2024 9:31 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Due to some miscommunication with apple my iPhone was wiped and only backup was corrupted. The team at Decipher worked with me and though the backup repair tool could not fix the problem the backup browser did allow me to recover my photos and other important bits. Apple offered nothing! Great software and people!

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Cat

June 17, 2024 6:24 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Thank you for the explanation and clarification on what to do! You're awesome. You guys have the best customer service hands down. I appreciate that.

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costa arianne

February 11, 2023 5:19 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

very goog

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Vics

November 14, 2022 6:47 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

With this software I was able to get the code to remove the restrictions for an ipad 2 ios 10.2, thanks a lot

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Heather

March 28, 2021 12:31 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I needed to get access to the ScreenTime passcode on my daughter's cell phone so I could remove it (I'd set it 3 years ago, and had NO idea what the code was, but couldn't wipe her old cell phone without knowing it). I installed and followed the instructions and it was as easy as that! SO GRATEFUL!

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Philip TK

November 4, 2020 6:37 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I can’t describe in words how thankful I am for this software. My last good iPhone backup was from more than a year ago and I had spent a week anxiously trying different programs to see if I could retrieve my lost photos to no avail. I was skeptical with this software at first, but after downloading the free trial, I was able to see thumbnails of all my photos so I was more than happy to pay $30 to export them to my computer. Not only does the backup browser save your images with time stamp and location intact, it also saves the three second live videos and the multiple copies of your photo that was taken with the burst option. I should also mention that technical support from Kelly was amazing when I had an issue exporting all 41000 files (you read that right) in one go. I ended up saving all my lost files! Thank you so much Kelly for inventing this software and your incredible support.

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Jared May

August 27, 2020 1:31 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

It worked and now it works!!! I'm very grateful for Kelli's work on my phone. I was really at a lose for how to move forward but Kelli talked me through the whole process step by step and was super supportive through the entire process. I used both Decipher's Repair and Browser programs together.

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Prashant

August 9, 2020 12:14 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This is an excellent tool. I was able to retrieve my forgotten screen time passcode within minutes.

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Horacio

May 27, 2020 12:37 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Amazing solution for recovering my lost iphone pics, but not only that the support is even better as Kelly guided me step by step almmost immediately after i sent the first email.

Keep like that guys,
Horacio

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Jane

January 24, 2020 7:45 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

It definitely worked! I almost spent tons of money for a data repair company to try and see if they could get photos from one of my old iphone backups that was corrupt. So glad I tried this program, it was able to retrieve all my photos! So thankful!

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Alma Moreno

January 10, 2020 2:43 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I was hesitant on paying $30 on a software to may or may not make my file corrupt, but I purchased it anyways because my photos that were lost are very important to me and I was trying many other solutions for literally a week. I came across this company and software through YouTube trying to figure out how I was able to fix my corrupt backup file.

After downloading the Backup Repair, I was still having issues even when I repaired it with the advanced option. I was in contact with Kelly, a representative of this company from the beginning of me trying to resolve this issue. Kelly has been patient, very responsive, detailed, knowledgeable, and helpful! Although my backup file was corrupt, my photos remained in tact. She was able to provide me another code for "Decipher Backup Browser" where I was able to find all the lost photos I lost in my backup! Now - I'm uploading my photos into my iCloud so I never lose them again. I highly suggest in having $2.99 a month for extra back up storage so you'll never go through this again! I called Apple numerous times and went to the store but this was the fastest fix! I wish I knew about them last Friday when my backup started malfunctioning due to the iOS update.

THANK YOU DECIPHER TOOLS FOR GETTING MY MEMORIES BACK !! I CAN NOT SAY ENOUGH FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO! Thank you for your professionalism and help! It's been a great pleasure being a customer.

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One Grateful Iphone User

December 27, 2019 10:30 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I have forgotten my screen time passcode and have had to manually reset it by going into the backups. With Decipher Backup Browser, all it took was a click a button and voila. These guys are awesome and they are going to be very rich one day.

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Amy

November 16, 2019 8:12 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Have been trying to remove my forgotten screentime password for ages and found an article recommending this, it was so quick and so easy! Thank you so much!!! I would 100% recommend this. I've been trying all day and this took less than five minutes and cost nothing! So grateful, and impressed!

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Jens Frederik Nyborg

November 14, 2019 10:06 AM

DecipherTools helped us out with my inheriting my daughters 'old' iPhone, which was blocked by its restrictions password.. (Yes I put it there while she was a kid, some iPhones ago). DecipherTools let me read the password allowing me to erase and copy my account over. Thank You

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Jens Nyborg

November 14, 2019 9:06 AM
★ ★ ★ ★

We had an iPhone my was letting me inherit, but we could not copy my old iPhone across, because we could not erase the damm stuff, becauseI as it seems had at one time set the restrictions passcode, which is necessary for performing an erase. This was solved by using Decipher Tools, thank You very much.

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BNA

November 8, 2019 8:53 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

this tool is amazing i got my screen time for my ipad in 10 mins. Easy to use with instruction.. Highly recomended

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Rhea

September 16, 2019 2:49 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This worked to help me recover my Screen Time passcode that I had forgotten! It didn't take that long. Seems safe and effective to me! I'm very grateful.

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Morgan

September 5, 2019 10:00 PM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This worked to help me recover my Screen Time passcode that I had forgotten! It didn't take that long. Seems safe and effective to me! I'm very grateful.

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Bert Wong

August 23, 2019 7:50 AM
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I was able to recover my Restrictions passcode in seconds using this product. Complete lifesaver, thank you very much.