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Decipher Backup Repair Release Notes

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Kelly Heffner Wilkerson, Co-Founder of Decipher Media
Kelly Heffner Wilkerson
October 15, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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October 15, 2024 - Decipher Backup Repair 18.1.5

  • Support for iOS 18.0.1 and iOS 18.1 backups.
  • Bug fixes.

July 29, 2024 - Decipher Backup Repair 18.1.0

  • Big speed improvements to the Advanced Repair feature.
  • New feature to look up iPhone/iPad backup passwords stored in the macOS keychain or Windows Credential Manager.
  • Support to rebuild data for the Hours Track Lite app.

April 5, 2024 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.5.0

  • Speed improvements.

March 28, 2024 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.4.0

  • New repairs for missing files in iOS 17.4 backups.
  • Speed improvements.

January 8, 2024 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.3.0

  • Speed improvements to checks to add missing data to repaired backup.
  • Bug fixes.

September 25, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.0.13

  • Addresses bugs with registering your license code.

September 22, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.0.12

  • Improved support for backups that are larger than phone capacity.

August 22, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.0.10

  • Refinements to repairs needed for some iOS 17 beta restores.
  • Native arm64 macOS support.

August 7, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.0.6

  • New repairs needed for some iOS 17 beta restores.
  • Updates to support downgrades for backups made with iOS 17 beta 4.
  • Improved support for backups made with iOS 15.7.8.
  • Improvements to repairs to include GoodNotes app data for very broken backups.

July 17, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.0.3

  • Improvements to iOS 17 beta downgrade repairs, including improved setup experience after restoring the downgraded backup.

July 13, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 17.0.1

  • Includes new option to downgrade a backup made with iOS 17 betas so it will restore on iOS 16.
  • Bug fixes.

April 14, 2023 - Decipher Backup Repair 16.5.1

  • Better recovery of photos and voice memos from incomplete backups.
  • Better handling of registration license codes.
  • Bug fixes.

December 30, 2022 - Decipher Backup Repair 16.2.0

  • New repairs for broken file list databases in backups.
  • Adds repairs/recovery for WeChat data in broken backups.

July 25, 2022 - Decipher Backup Repair 16.0.1

  • Speeds up camera roll recovery portion of the repairs.

June 20, 2022 - Decipher Backup Repair 16.0.0

  • Support for iOS 16 backups.
  • Improved support for recovered backups with partial damaged files.
  • Bug fixes

October 29, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 15.1.0

  • Additional repairs for backups made with iOS 15
  • Fix issues launching 32-bit Windows version of Decipher Backup Repair
  • Bug fixes

September 14, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.7.4

  • Important bug fix for issue where backups were not appearing to repair on macOS.

August 30, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.7.3

  • Support to repair backups made with iOS 15 for restoring on iOS 14.7.
  • Improved repairs for reconstruction of heavily damaged backups.

June 3, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.7.0

  • Improvements and fixes for license registration.
  • Improved support for iOS 14.4-14.7 beta backups.

March 29, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.4.4

  • Adds a few new repairs.

March 20, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.4.3

  • New repairs for latest iOS 14.4.1 update.
  • Repair speed improvements.
  • Bug fixes.

March 3, 2021 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.4.0

  • Improved recovery for WhatsApp data in damaged backups.
  • Correct issue where drive letter of backup location was not shown on Windows.
  • Bug fixes.

December 3, 2020 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.2.2

  • Updates to better support latest iTunes.
  • Support for damaged Keep Safe app data.

November 19, 2020 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.2.0

  • Adds additional repairs for iOS 14.2

August 6, 2020 - Decipher Backup Repair 14.0.1

  • Improved recovery of notes, voice memos, and voicemails from very broken backups.
  • Support for macOS Big Sur beta.
  • Improved custom backup locations options for repairing backups stored outside of iTunes. You can now add a single backup, in addition to folders of multiple backups.
  • Improvements to reconstructing some third-party app data like WhatsApp and Photo Vault.

January 20, 2020 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.3.9

  • Improved support for backups made with iOS 13.3.1 betas.
  • New repairs for new iOS 13 backup issues.
  • Improved camera roll recovery/reconstruction for some broken backup scenarios.
  • UI Improvements.
  • Bug fixes.

November 26, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.3.2

  • Improvements to labeling of repaired backups on macOS Catalina.
  • Additional repairs for new iOS 13 backup corruption.

November 12, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.3.0

  • Additional repairs built-in for problems with iPhone Wi-Fi switch being stuck on "off".

October 31, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.2.0

  • Fix for repairing encrypted backups made with iOS 13.2.0.
  • Bug fixes for 32-bit Windows version.

October 6, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.0.4

  • Fix a crash repairing some incomplete backups.

October 4, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.0.3

  • Improved repairs for backups damaged by encryption bugs.
  • Improved repairs for backups recovered after being deleted on the hard drive.

September 27, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 13.0.0

  • Supports 32-bit Windows as well as continued support for 64-bit macOS and 64-bit Windows.
  • Improved support for issues specific to iOS 12.4 and iOS 13.
  • Improved support for buggy/incomplete backup metadata files.
  • Bug fixes!

June 24, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.2.10

  • New repairs for specific issues restoring a backup to an iPhone XR.
  • New repairs for rare issues transitioning from an iOS 9 or earlier backup to an iOS 12 backup.
  • Bug fixes.

May 7, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.2.6

  • New additional repairs to address certain "iTunes cannot restore the iphone because an error occurred." restore errors.

April 10, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.2.0

  • Improved support for lates iOS 12.2 betas.
  • Bug fixes.

February 16, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.1.10

  • Detects buggy unused Messages attachments from older versions of iOS taking up iPhone disk space. These buggy extra files will be omitted from the repaired backup.
  • New support for some particularly corrupt encrypted backups.
  • Improvements to repairs for corrupt backups from APFS transition bugs.
  • Bug fixes.

January 23, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.1.6

  • UI improvements for Custom Backup Location option.
  • Improved support for iOS 12.1.3 backups.
  • Bug fixes.

January 1, 2019 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.1.4

  • Improved support for iOS 12.1.2 and 12.1.3 beta backups.
  • Upgrade to Java 11 on Mac and Windows.
  • Upgrade to 64-bit on Windows.
  • Support macOS Mojave hardened runtime and notarization.

December 5, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.1.1

  • Improved support for iOS 12.1.1 backups.
  • Sped up error reporting for some backup errors.

November 30, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.1.0

  • Add support for repairing backups not stored in the default iTunes backup folder.
  • Improved support for iOS 12.1.1 beta backups.
  • Bug fixes.

October 10, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.0.10

  • Improved support for iOS 12 backups.
  • Bug fixes.

September 20, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.0.3

  • Polishing touches on continued support for iOS 12.
  • Updates to instructions for macOS Mojave.
  • Improvements to the user interface.

June 25, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 12.0.0

  • Support and instructions for new permissions features on macOS Mojave.
  • Updates for iOS 11.4.1 betas.
  • Improve notifications when the hard drive is out of space.

May 18, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.3.4

  • Update to support the new Windows iTunes on the Microsoft Store.
  • Minor Bug fixes.

April 24, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.3.0

  • Update for improved iOS 11.3.1 support.
  • Minor Bug fixes.

February 23, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.2.6

  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Improved support for latest iOS updates.
  • Improvements to Windows version of DBR.

January 23, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.2.4

  • Minor bug fixes.

January 9, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.2.2

  • UI now shows available computer hard drive space where iTunes backups are stored.
  • Updates for iOS 11.2.2

January 6, 2018 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.2.1

  • Improved handling of ringtone files in iOS 11 backups.
  • Updates for latest iOS 11.2.5 betas.

December 19, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.2.0

  • Improved update checking using Sparkle and WinSparkle!
  • Improved support for iOS 11.2.1, iOS 11.2.5 beta 1, and iOS 11.2.5 beta 2 backups.
  • More support for some rare iOS 11 encrypted backup bugs.

November 22, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.1.5

  • Bug fixes and verbage clarifications.

November 10, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.1.4

  • Improved support for iOS 11.1.1 and iOS 11.2 beta 2.
  • Bug fixes.

November 3, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.1.1

  • Support for iOS 11.2 beta users who need to restore a backup to iOS 11.1 on an iPhone X.

November 2, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.1.0

  • Improved support for backups made with iOS 11.1 and iOS 11.2 beta.
  • Improved support for backups made with other third party backup tools besides iTunes.
  • Speed improvements for backups with filesystem errors.
  • More repairs needed for some iOS 11.X restores!
  • Bug fixes for some Windows users.

September 18, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.21

  • Improved repairs in advanced repair for some encrypted backup issues.
  • Improvements to speed and results of some reconstructed backups.
  • Visual improvements for DBR running at high resolutions on Windows.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Improved support for Viber in repaired backups.
  • Improved support for Notes, especially "On my iPhone notes".
  • Fix issues with Leopard/Snow Leopard version.

August 1, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.11

  • Various bug fixes and usability tweaks.

July 19, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.10

  • Support for backups made with iOS 10.3.3 public release.
  • Support for backups made with iOS 11 developer beta 3/public beta 2.
  • Some new repairs for incomplete or buggy iPhone backups.
  • Speed improvements to Advanced Repair.

June 28, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.5

  • Support for backups made with iOS 10.3.3 beta 5.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • Improved retina macOS support.

June 23, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.4

  • Support for backups made with iOS 10.3.3 beta 4.
  • Memory usage improvements and some speed optimizations!

June 14, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.2

  • Support for backups made with iOS 10.3.3 beta 3.
  • Improved repair information and miscellaneous bug fixes.

June 6, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 11.0.0

  • Support for backups made with iOS 11.
  • Improved interface for iOS 10.2 and higher backups when the backup password is required.
  • Improved information about the date a backup password was generated.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

May 15, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.3.0

  • Improvements to WhatsApp data recovery, WhatsApp attachment recovery.
  • Improvements to iPhone Messages app data recovery, and iPhone text message attachment recovery.
  • Update to better support iOS 10.3.1 and 10.3.2 (beta and not beta) backups.

April 27, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.27

  • Updates to better support iOS 10.2.3 beta backups.
  • Minor speed improvements.

March 30, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.22

  • Improvements to repairs for incomplete encrypted backups.
  • Additional help for iTunes backup passwords.

March 21, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.20

  • Changes to speed up repairs.
  • Resolves possible issues from conflicts on Mac from Java extensions installed for other software.
  • Resolves issue on some Windows configurations due to custom temp file permissions settings.
  • Fixes issues from backups made with recent iOS betas.

January 12, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.11

  • Prevent issues involving trying to build on/use incomplete repair passes.
  • Fixes issues in iOS 10.2.1 beta 3 backups.

January 6, 2017 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.10

  • Improved the repaired backup's behavior in the iOS setup screens after restore.
  • Fix an issue where corrupt iTunes settings files in the backup would cause repeated prompts for the App Store account password.
  • Improved support for macOS retina displays.
  • Fixes issues in iOS 10.2.1 beta 1 and 2 backups.
  • Other minor bug fixes and memory footprint improvements.

December 6, 2016 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.5

  • Improved support for iOS 10.2 and nicer (and fewer!) prompts for encrypted backups.
  • Additional repairs for backups affected by iOS 10 backup encryption bugs.
  • Fixes to speed up repair finalization.
  • Add web proxy settings for DBR users behind a firewall.

November 24, 2016 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.2.0

  • Support for iOS 10.2 beta encrypted backups.
  • Additional repairs supporting rare iPhone incremental backup issues.
  • Speed improvements for repairs to encrypted backups.

November 4, 2016 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.1.10

  • Adds additional checks and repairs for backups with encryption bugs for some files. (See our blog post about encryption bugs if you're interested!)
  • Improved rebuilding heavily broken iOS 10 backups.

October 27, 2016 - Decipher Backup Repair 10.1.5

  • Improves Advanced Repair handles more cases of file system errors with the backup files.
  • Improves support for iOS 10 backups, simplifying a few repair checks.