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Is there a way to access the iPhone 6 registry and its contents?

It is very important that I figure out how to get into my phone's registry. I had an app on my phone that was deleted 2 days ago. I need to somehow find a way to get a report of the apps used on my phone and the time-stamps. I need to show this to someone as they logged in on my phone under the Gmail app, they think I was in their account. They signed in about 3 months ago, I thought they signed out. I opened the app one time about a week and a half ago-ish and didn't sign out of their account. This person thinks I somehow got their password, but I didn't. The password saved into the app, but I didn't know. I went to use the app to use my gmail account and saw that their email was still signed in, I left it open to show them but then I got busy and forgot about it. I've already contacted Google, Apple, and the service provider. Nada. I also didn't back up my phone.

iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.1

Posted on Apr 13, 2016 2:11 PM

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Apr 13, 2016 4:29 PM in response to socalijane

socalijane wrote:


Almost always, he said. How would I access the .plist files for active apps then? There has to be a way in somewhere?

There are rare times when an app either fails to clean up after itself or the deletion gets Fubar'd (one of the ways that a corrupted "others" in storage can fill up). Since it's usually a result of an app deletion that went awry, those orphaned files are also likely corrupted and unreadable.


As mentioned, you cannot access those files on a native iOS install as the core file system is intentionally not user accessible. When an app is deleted, it cleans up after itself. In part that's simply a necessity with a device with finite and non-expandable primary storage. What you're hoping to find will simply not be there to find even of you could go poking about for it.

Apr 13, 2016 4:27 PM in response to socalijane

There is no actual files (please forget Microsoft Windows OS registries and file system, iOS is a totally different animal).

All apps run in a sandbox (except the apps from Apple that came with the iPhone) this is a security feature. There is no way to manipulate that data and since it's deleted, it's gone forever.

See here: if you delete an app, everything that the app uses or saves will also be deleted.

Is there a way to access the iPhone 6 registry and its contents?

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