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No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
Apple Mobile Device Service by Apple Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 17.59.0.23 |
| MD5: | 70d7be78061126dd0c3accdb7e129017 |
| SHA1: | 02167d85ca2270c7f0f6e0e26473a7bdca218be2 |
| SHA256: | 6f330c925b2567eccda0c743a51ba64caa91e16021efa5946b3a135282bfb1bf |
What is AppleMobileDeviceService.exe?
This is the service 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.
Overview
AppleMobileDeviceService.exe runs as a service under the name Apple Mobile Device (SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Apple Mobile Device) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Apple Mobile Device Support published by Apple Inc., Apple Mobile Device Support from Apple Inc. and Apple Mobile Device Support by Apple Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Apple Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | AppleMobileDeviceService.exe |
| Publisher: | Apple Inc. |
| Product name: | Apple Mobile Device Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledeviceservice.exe |
| File version: | 17.59.0.23 |
| Product version: | 3.2.0.0 |
| Size: | 141.28 KB (144,672 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Apple Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, May 17, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, June 26, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.369864 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Apple Mobile Device Support is required and used for the synchronisation between an Apple mobile iOS devices (iPod, iPhone or iPad) and a PC through iTunes. If uninstalled, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch may not appear under Devices in iTunes after you connect it to your Windows PC. Apple Mobile Device Service runs as a Windows service (Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS)) regardless if the user is running a connected Apple application...
Users who wished to sync their MobileMe data with a PC had to download and install Apple's MobileMe Control Panel. To install, the user first had to download and install the latest version of iTunes, and then install MobileMe Control Panel. After installation, the user signed into the control panel using their username and password, and could control sync settings for contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and iDisk settings such as public fol...
MobileMe (replaced by iCloud) was a subscription-based collection of online services. MobileMe allowed users to track the location of their iOS devices via the web portal at me.com. MobileMe had two different plans. The Individual plan included 20 GB of email and file storage and 200 GB of monthly data transfer. MobileMe maintained a synchronized address book and calendar feature using Push functions. When a user made a change to a con...
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01751989% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00645379% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01106610% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 245,169 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 0 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.81 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.37 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.85 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.81 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 28.43 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 29.58 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.92 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.81 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,186/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 58.87 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 17/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 87 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 584 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 33/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 123 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
Process properties
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\apple\mobile device support\applemobiledeviceservice.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Apple Mobile Device |
| Display name: | Apple Mobile Device |
| Description: | “Provides the interface to Apple mobile devices.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
31.82% |
|
| Windows XP Home Edition |
31.82% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
18.18% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
9.09% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
4.55% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
4.55% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 36.36% of Apple Mobile Device Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
80.00% |
|
| Acer |
20.00% |
|
