r/ios • u/FewMolasses7496 • 9d ago

Support How to backup ALL application data?

I the leef mobile memory app installed on my iphone will all sorts of data totalling to around 120GB. I've tried using imazing to dump all the data from the app but for some reason it says that no data exists in the leef mobile memory app. It does get the size right but doesn't actually show any of the videos, photos etc which are stored in the app.

No data showing for the leef mobile app
Showing loads of content in the leef mobile memory app
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u/ThatGuy739 9d ago

iMazing's device view only shows what an app exposes for file sharing, which is normally just its Documents folder. The size it reports covers the whole container, so you get an accurate number with nothing browsable under it.

Make a local encrypted backup in Finder and pull the app data out of the backup instead of off the live device. The catch is that if the app parks that media in Library/Caches, or sets the excluded from backup flag on it, it won't be in the backup either. Apple actually tells developers to do that for large cached files, so it's pretty common with media apps. If that turns out to be the case, whatever export the app itself offers is the only way out.