An Israeli company that supplies law enforcement agencies worldwide announced that the newest version of its tool to access locked phones can access almost any smartphone, including Apple devices running iOS 7-12.3 and most Android phones.
The company, Cellebrite, promises that its new UFED Premium device offers nearly complete access to Apple devices and “flagship Samsung devices”, as well as support for accessing the file system on “popular device models from Motorola, Huawei, LG and Xiaomi.”
The company boasts that its device lets law enforcement bypass or determine locks and perform a full file system extraction on any iOS device, or a physical extraction or full file system (File-Based Encryption) extraction on many high-end Android devices to gain access to 3rd party app data, chat conversations, downloaded emails and email attachments, deleted content and more.
Apple has added features to iOS in recent years to thwart this kind of access, and is rolling out iOS 13 this summer and fall.
