It was in January 2007 that Apple released the first version of the iPhone. Since then, the global smartphone market has never been the same.
With the advent of Android devices, the relative share of iOS-based mobile phones has been declining steadily over the years. With iPhone accounting for nearly 14% of all smartphones sold in Q2 2015 (according to http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp), the rest of the market is dominated by Android.
In absolute terms, there are still a lot of old iOS devices around. Approximately 74.4 million iPhones were sold during Q1 2015 alone.
In the U.S., iPhones account for 35.58% of the subscriber base in Q3 2015 (source: http://bgr.com/2015/10/01/iphone-market-share-q3-2015-android/). With that many iOS smartphones used throughout the U.S., the need for iOS forensics remains strong.
In this chapter, we will discuss the options available for acquiring information from iOS devices. We will...