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Extracting iCloud backups
Online backups stored on the iCloud are commonly retrieved when the original iPhone is
damaged or lost. To extract a backup from iCloud, you must know the user's Apple ID and
password. With the known Apple ID and password, you can log on to
www.icloud.com
and
get access to contacts, notes, e-mail, calendar, photos, reminders, and more. To extract the
complete backup from iCloud, you can use Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker. As iCloud
is not the fastest cloud storage, downloading a large backup with iPhone Password Breaker
can take hours. To speed up the investigation, the tool provides an option to download the
selected files.
To extract the iCloud backup, perform the following steps:
1. Launch the iPhone Password Breaker.
2. Navigate to
File
|
Apple
|
Get Backup from iCloud
. It displays a prompt to sign
in with your Apple ID, as shown in the following screenshot:
3. Successfully signing in with your Apple ID lists the available device backups, as
shown in the following screenshot:
