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@kolbicz kolbicz released this 10 Nov 01:02
v0.7
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Requires: iOS 26.0 – 26.7.2 or iOS 27. Tested on iOS 26.7.1, 27.0.1 and 27.2.
Needs: a sideloading tool that keeps the App Group entitlement. If the Log says "No App Group", re-sign with one that does; see Signing in the README.

Worse Query Files 0.7

iOS 27.2: app names are back

On iOS 27.2, apps and extensions showed up as long IDs without names, and the Cache Cleaner couldn't clean anything (#1, #7, #8, #9). iOS 27.2 stores the app database differently; WQ Files now reads it, and finds out which apps the containers belong to from it.

iOS 26 is supported (26.0 – 26.7.2)

  • Apps, Extension Data and App Groups are listed from the app database. A full scan would take most of an hour on iOS 26; the database is found once and remembered.
  • Internal Daemons need a full scan on iOS 26. The first one takes long and shows the time left; later ones only check new files.
  • Icons are loaded from the app itself where iOS 26 hands out only a placeholder.
  • System Data and System Groups can't be reached on iOS 26 and are hidden.

Faster scans

  • Only the first scan is slow. Found containers are remembered; later scans check only files created since, with a full scan once a week.
  • Leaving a screen no longer throws a scan away. It keeps running, and the next screen uses the result.
  • Folder lists show progress while containers are read ("Reading containers… 120 of 360").

New

  • Swipe to delete. Swipe a row left or right in the file browser to delete it. It asks first, like the long-press menu, and files are backed up before they're deleted.

Fixed

  • Access that didn't work is noticed. On some setups iOS handed out access that didn't actually open the folders, so nothing had a name. WQ Files now checks every access and falls back to the other access method when needed.
  • The Log says more: how long a scan took, which apps refused access, and how the app database was read.
  • A cancelled scan is no longer reported as "no containers found".

Credit

Sandbox technique: worse_query by Taj C (forcequit). Container enumeration: KAMUI by murk-sus. Thanks to everyone who sent Logs from iOS 26 and 27.2. GPL-3.0-or-later.

SHA-256 of WQFiles.ipa: a02167446b03bca24b688bd33d57b4bec967f637e854084aba60e808df4fdaa3

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