deciphering analytics data and identifying where its going

i recently discovered the analytics data on my iphone 15, and was confused immediately upon examining it.


how do i translate these logs into a format that makes sense to me, i am looking to identify what the processes and occurrences they mention actually are, what apps they involve, as well as where this information was sent, who initiated these processes and who the intended recipient of any output/data they produced/discovered/resulted in.


most of them seem to contain numbers written in common formats, regardless of the log type, for example:


01234567-0123-0123-0123-0123456789ab


0x123456789


a bunch of other numbers with similar formats and patterns


any info pertaining to decrypting or translating these logs and the contents would be appreciated, thank you!

iPhone 15 Plus

Posted on Feb 7, 2025 02:15 PM

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Feb 7, 2025 02:21 PM in response to Righteous_Vibes

i recently discovered the analytics data on my iphone 15, and was confused immediately upon examining it.


Sorry, not much help here. You need special software just to be able to read the raw data and special training to be able to interpret the results.


That's far beyond the scope of things on this user-to-user site unless an experienced programmer or developer might see you post.


For example, the model number of your iPhone in analytics is not the model number of the iPhone that you have in your hands and it gets a lot worse.



Feb 7, 2025 03:57 PM in response to Righteous_Vibes

Righteous_Vibes wrote:

i recently discovered the analytics data on my iphone 15, and was confused immediately upon examining it.

how do i translate these logs into a format that makes sense to me, i am looking to identify what the processes and occurrences they mention actually are, what apps they involve, as well as where this information was sent, who initiated these processes and who the intended recipient of any output/data they produced/discovered/resulted in.


What you're asking for is well beyond the scope of this forum.


most of them seem to contain numbers written in common formats, regardless of the log type, for example:

01234567-0123-0123-0123-0123456789ab

0x123456789

a bunch of other numbers with similar formats and patterns

any info pertaining to decrypting or translating these logs and the contents would be appreciated, thank you!


If "0x123456789" does not suggest anything to you, I don't think you're going to be able to get much of anything out of analytics, except confusion.


The "0x" is a prefix indicating that this is a hexadecimal (base 16) number. At the most basic level, modern digital computers work in terms of bits. A bit can be either 0 or 1. A hexadecimal number corresponds to a group of four bits (e.g. 0x9 = 1001 (base 2)), and if you are trying to decode a 32-bit or 64-bit register value that may contain a number of smaller sub-fields, it is much easier to work with base 16 than base 10.


Just knowing that we have a hexadecimal number does not tell us anything about what it is supposed to represent. That would be like me saying "11,000" and expecting you to magically know that this was one person's estimate of the number of species of birds in the world.

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