Versions

17.921.1.49	6.25%
17.919.0.9	12.50%
17.894.1.3	34.38%
17.893.0.4	35.94%
17.860.2.5	9.38%
17.860.0.163	1.56%

There are 6 versions of applemobiledevicehelper.exe in the wild, the latest version being 17.921.1.49. applemobiledevicehelper.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 52.32 KB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Apple Inc. by VeriSign. The programs Apple Mobile Device Support, MobileMe Control Panel and QuickTime 7 have been observed as installing specific variations of applemobiledevicehelper.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0017% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 5.48 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 13.48 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 3.78 KB per minute for reads and 275 Bytes per minute for writes.

This is the bootstrapper/helper portion of the Apple MobileDeviceHelper iTunes sync. AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe is installed along with the latest version of Apple iTunes and is used to sync your iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod or iPad with iTunes when you connect your device to your computer. If you are running Windows XP, before the installation of Service Pack 2, this service was required for use with the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service.