Apple Maps is a bit of a nightmare,
kind of like Google Maps was on Android.
Depending on your version that is running on the device--
depends on what you will get from it.
Something else to consider is many Apple users keep updating.
So if you get some of my backups, you will have OS 7.
So if you see iOS 7, that data is
going to be stored in history.mapsdata
right on the device.
Everything is easy.
IOS 8 through iOS 11--
GeoHistory.mapsdata was created.
So if you look at the screenshot,
you can see where it's GeoHistory.mapsdata
and history.mapsdata.
It's because I upgraded.
Now, as I keep using Apple Maps, at some point in iOS 11,
Apple Maps stopped saving data into GeoHistory.mapsdata.
I wrote a blog on this, and claimed it's
because the data was encrypted.
What I didn't know is the data actually existed in cloud.
When iOS 12 came out, all of the data was missing again.
However, Elcomsoft provided me a license
to test data for this class.
And I extracted data, and I was like, oh my goodness.
All of that map data that I thought
was encrypted since iOS 11 is actually just sitting in cloud.
Nothing is saved on the device.
So for iOS 11-- and do you notice there's a star?
Depending on the device--
depends on when this occurred.
IOS 11 and 12--
all data's in cloud.
IOS 13 comes out.
The data's all back, and it's on GeoHistory.mapsdata--
makes no sense.
This is where Apple does confusing things.
IOS 14 and 15--
the data's in a brand new file.
And that file you can see in the right-hand screenshot.
It's called MapsSync_0.0.1.
Now, the issue with MapSync--
it's only going to store your last five
searches, and only pieces of it, depending
on what you have done.