A property list, commonly referred to as a plist, is a structured data format used to store, organize, and access various types of data on an iOS device as well as a macOS device. plist files are binary-formatted, and they can be viewed using a property List Editor, which is capable of reading or converting the binary format to an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) format.
Plist files may or may not have a .plist file extension. To access the data stored in these files, you need a tool that can read them. Some of the good free tools include the following:
- plist Editor Pro, which can be downloaded from http://www.icopybot.com/plist-editor.htm.
- The plutil command-line utility on macOS.
You can view plist files using Xcode. macOS includes the plutil command-line utility by default. This command-line utility can easily convert the binary-formatted...
