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SQLite SQL Query for iPhone Text Message Backup
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-- more info http://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2017/02/iphone-text-message-sqlite-sql-query.html | |
select | |
m.rowid | |
,coalesce(m.cache_roomnames, h.id) ThreadId | |
,m.is_from_me IsFromMe | |
,case when m.is_from_me = 1 then m.account | |
else h.id end as FromPhoneNumber | |
,case when m.is_from_me = 0 then m.account | |
else coalesce(h2.id, h.id) end as ToPhoneNumber | |
,m.service Service | |
/*,datetime(m.date + 978307200, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') as TextDate -- date stored as ticks since 2001-01-01 */ | |
,datetime((m.date / 1000000000) + 978307200, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') as TextDate /* after iOS11 date needs to be / 1000000000 */ | |
,m.text MessageText | |
,c.display_name RoomName | |
from | |
message as m | |
left join handle as h on m.handle_id = h.rowid | |
left join chat as c on m.cache_roomnames = c.room_name /* note: chat.room_name is not unique, this may cause one-to-many join */ | |
left join chat_handle_join as ch on c.rowid = ch.chat_id | |
left join handle as h2 on ch.handle_id = h2.rowid | |
where | |
-- try to eliminate duplicates due to non-unique message.cache_roomnames/chat.room_name | |
(h2.service is null or m.service = h2.service) | |
order by | |
2 -- ThreadId | |
,m.date |
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This has been incredibly helpful for me and I thank you for providing it. I wonder if anyone has figured out how to incorporate the new "Recently Deleted" messages into an SQL query? I can see in the raw data that I've deleted items but I can't find the message content. Recovering messages that were deleted within 30 day was a new feature of OS16.