Exploring the iOS filesystem
Although a majority of our filesystem exploration will be interesting only when the device is jailbroken, it is also possible to access the filesystem on non-jailbroken devices and explore the files that are available. This is possible only when the device is paired with a PC. The latest versions of iOS (7 and later) introduced a new feature that when a device is plugged in to a PC for pairing, the user is prompted to either trust the computer or not; earlier versions allowed pairing without issuing any alerts.
Some important file locations are summarized here:
/Applications: All the system applications are stored in this location/var/mobile/Applications: Third-party applications are stored here; this has been replaced ...
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