Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Property lists

A property list, commonly referred to as a plist, is a structured data format used to store, organize, and access various types of data on an iOS device as well as a macOS device. plist files are binary-formatted, and they can be viewed using a property List Editor, which is capable of reading or converting the binary format to an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) format.

Plist files may or may not have a .plist file extension. To access the data stored in these files, you need a tool that can read them. Some of the good free tools include the following:

• plist Editor Pro, which can be downloaded from http://www.icopybot.com/plist-editor.htm.
• The plutil command-line utility on macOS.

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