What is on your phone
- What a 'full file system' extraction actually containsEngland & Wales · Scotland · Northern Ireland · Australia · United States
What Cellebrite, Magnet and independent reports say about full-file-system extraction, and what Apple and Android document about their storage classes.
- Deleted is not gone — but it is not all recoverable eitherEngland & Wales · Scotland · Northern Ireland · Australia · United States
What SQLite, Upturn and NIST say can remain after a deletion and what is cleaned or generally unrecoverable, plus Apple on iCloud and Advanced Data Protection.
- What lives in the cloud and with your carrier, not the phoneEngland & Wales · Scotland · Northern Ireland · Australia · United States
What Apple and CBP documentation say about data held by a phone maker or carrier, not on the device, including standard and Advanced Data Protection.
- What Apple and Android’s own security notes sayEngland & Wales · Scotland · Northern Ireland · Australia · United States
Apple’s iOS 18.3.1 security note and USB accessories page, and Android’s encryption, rate-limiting and bulletin pages, quoted with dates. Not advice.
- What a phone extraction can actually seeEngland & Wales · Scotland · Northern Ireland · Australia · United States
How SWGDE and Upturn describe logical, file-system and physical extraction, with Signal, SQLite and toolmaker statements quoted alongside. Not advice.