Chatcove 0.1.8

Chatcove 0.1.8 for macOS.

The iPhone backup password is now much easier to understand.

• New: "What is a backup password?" explains it in one place, on every card about the password and next to every password field. It is not your iPhone passcode, your Apple ID password or your Mac login password. A Learn more link opens the full guide on docs.chatcove.app.
• Fixed: when this Mac could no longer read the saved backup password (for example after its keychain was reset or restored), Chatcove got stuck between "On and verified" and "Password needed". It now simply asks you for the password.
• Clearer wrong-password messages: a typed password that does not open the backup asks you to check it for typos, and a saved password that no longer matches says why and how to fix it.
• When the backup on this Mac is older than the saved password, the card now says "Backup too old" and asks for one fresh backup, instead of reporting a wrong password.
• "Password needed" now says where an existing password may have come from (Finder or iTunes, another app such as iMazing, or Chatcove on another Mac) and walks you through resetting it if you forgot it.
• Delete everything for an iPhone now also forgets a saved backup password Chatcove cannot use: one that no backup has confirmed, or one this Mac can no longer read. A confirmed password is kept, because the iPhone still uses it.

Apple Silicon (arm64), macOS 12 Monterey or later. Signed and notarized by Codama Inc.

New install: download Chatcove-0.1.8-arm64.dmg, open it, and drag Chatcove to Applications. Already on an earlier version: the app downloads this update and offers to restart, or use Check for Updates in the app menu.

Source for the modified libimobiledevice (LGPL-2.1-or-later) is attached as libimobiledevice-1.4.0-chatcove-source.tar.gz. libplist, libimobiledevice-glue and libusbmuxd ship unmodified; the app's licenses/SOURCES.md names their upstream source tarballs with SHA-256.