As discussed, iOS 14 brought on the new file MapsSync_0.0.1. This database stores 15 entries and many are different representations of the same location artifact. In this database, you will find a column called Type that stores “coordinates of search”, “navigation journey”, and “location search”. This database is transactional in nature, which means the first written data is overwritten when a new search is created. At most, you will have the last five searches. We are hopeful that a cloud extraction will pull additional artifacts. This file has not changed in iOS 15.

Heather Mahalik wrote a query that is available in your class notebook: https://for585.com/notebook and Adrien Leong wrote a script that implements Heather’s query into HTML format and exports the BLOBS.¹

Reference:

[1] https://for585.com/monkey14 (iOS 14 script)