3uTools for iOS Device Forensics Introduction Having multiple software and hardware tools while conducting mobile device forensics can assist examiners in overcoming any obstacles caused by operating systems updates, new data file formats, unsupported applications/operating system/device modules, and other issues that often arise while examining mobile devices. This research reviewed and tested a tool named 3uTools to determine its advantages and disadvantages for iOS device forensics. This research begins with reviewing the tool, which focuses extensively on utilities within the tool that could be of use for forensic examiners dealing with iOS devices. The testing phase of the research included utilizing 3uTools to extract data from iOS devices and other tests to determine the capabilities of the tool. The last part of the research was centered around the results of the data backups created by 3uTools and comparing them to a full filesystem extraction conducted using Cellebrit