iOS 8.3 blocks access to the applications installed in our terminals using programs such as iFunBox, iTools, iExplorer, iBackupBot or PhoneView, the American company restricting access without providing details about this change. If in the past some application data from our terminals could be accessed using these programs, starting with iOS 8.3 Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), restricts access to applications with iTunes File Sharing disabled, and in the image above you have a visible error displayed in iFunbox when trying to view the data of an application without iTunes File Sharing active.
At the moment access to the data of these applications is only possible making jailbreak, which is not available for iOS 8.3, those behind the iFunbox program accusing the Apple company of restricting the freedom of users to access the data of the applications installed in their own terminals. Practically, in iOS 8.3, Apple blocked the access to the sandboxed data of the applications, until now the company restricted only the possibility to write in those files, but now we can't even copy the information, as we could do in the past without problems.
iOS 8.3 ruined our freedom of controlling data in our installed Apps and Games," writes iFunBox in a Facebook post. "Apple blocked access of the entire sandbox directory of every installed App since iOS 8.3. Previously, only writing was blocked in the executable directory. Now we totally lost the control of Apps on our own devices. We are investigating the situation. Before there is a solution, iFunbox will fail to open the data directory of any App if the device is not jailbroken.
The change affects both programs for Windows and those for OS X, their representatives claiming that they are trying to find ways to circumvent the restrictions imposed by Apple, but this seems unlikely at the moment. Those at iFunbox have updated their program to allow access to data from applications that have iTunes File Sharing enabled, so we will not have restrictions for them, but in the rest of the cases we will not be able to access the data.
Considering that a lot of users used programs like those previously mentioned to copy ringtones, pictures, music, movies and many others without iTunes, the Apple company will most likely face a multitude of critics in light of this change.
