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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by kiririn on Saturday May 22, 2021 @07:15AM (#27245429)
>look at your data directly and back it up

>backup and restore the entire device including apps

Ironically these areas are where iOS shines. Despite being a heavily walled garden, it grants you full backups and full user filesystem access (including things like keychain) via extracting those backups.

A comparable and unrooted Android tablet cannot be fully backed up, and you cannot inspect app/user settings areas of its filesystem.

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by m463 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:45PM (#27250542)
> Ironically these areas are where iOS shines.

You as a device owner do not have access to the full ios filesystem. full stop.

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Re:Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire by kiririn on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:31AM (#27291839)
You get way more access on unjailbroken iOS than on unrooted Android. The equivalent of the entire /data partition is available to both read and write via iTunes backups with very few exceptions.

On Android, you used to be able to backup maybe half of app/user data in this way (many devs opted out), now closer to zero (adb backup deprecated)

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