Backup files are extremely important
in many investigations.
So think of things like plane crashes, terrorism events,
missing people.
Often, the cloud data will be the only thing
you have to examine.
Whether it comes from iCloud or iTunes or finder
it should not matter.
Most Apple users back up to iCloud every single night.
They may not even realize that this is happening because it
becomes such a habit for us.
Most of us plug-in our devices, connected to Wi-Fi,
we go to sleep.
What happens during that sleep is the backup is created.
This backup will not be the same as backups
that exist on your computer, on your Mac, wherever
else you're saving them.
I have backup storage.
So if you look at my backup storage drives,
I have backups from iOS 7 stored on them.
You may come across legacy information.
Make sure you are ready to examine everything.
If you look at the plist on the device,
it's going to tell you every single computer
that a backup has ever been created
from this actual device.