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Cellebrite Premium
Premium is Cellebrite's advanced access capability for locked and encrypted handsets. Cellebrite has said the Premium name is going away as its capabilities are folded into Inseyets.
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Profile
- Manufacturer
- Cellebrite
- Category
- Mobile forensics
- Product type
- Platform
- Platforms
- Not stated by the manufacturer
- Licensing
- Commercial
- Product status
- Transitioning
- Educational level
- Advanced
- Last verified
- 2 November 2026
Two official pages disagree. The Premium page sells Premium as a Service and Premium ES with Core, Pro and Unlimited packages. The Inseyets FAQ lists Premium, Premium Enterprise and Premium SaaS among discontinued products, and the April 2024 Inseyets explainer says the Premium name will go away. Marked Transitioning for that reason. Learners should treat Inseyets as the current name for these capabilities.
What Cellebrite Premium is
Most phones that reach a lab are locked. Standard extraction gets limited data from such a device. Premium is the Cellebrite tier that attempts lawful access to locked iOS and Android devices and then performs a full file system extraction. It is sold to law enforcement and government agencies, not to the public, and its use is tied to legal authority such as a warrant or a court order, to the agency's own written procedures and to the vendor's workflow.
Cellebrite's Premium page today lists two deployment models, Premium as a Service (cloud based, agency wide) and Premium ES (enterprise server, serving every UFED endpoint), with Core, Pro and Unlimited packages. At the same time Cellebrite's Inseyets FAQ lists Premium, Premium Enterprise and Premium SaaS among products being discontinued as customers are transitioned to Inseyets, and its April 2024 explainer says the unlocking and extraction capabilities of Inseyets are the ones used in Premium and that the Premium name will go. For a learner the important point is governance: who may run an advanced access job, under what order, how the device is preserved before and after and how the attempt is recorded.
Primary applications
Where it is used
- Lawful access to locked devices in serious criminal matters, under a court order
- Full file system extraction once a device is accessible
- Agency-wide deployment through a central server serving several examination stations
- Preservation of devices seized in a locked state until an authorised examination
- Handing full extractions to Physical Analyzer or Inseyets.PA for decoding
Who uses it
- Central and state police cyber cells with legal mandate
- Government forensic science laboratories
- Laboratory managers setting access governance
- Students studying the law and ethics of device access, not its operation
Capabilities and limits
Major capabilities
- Advanced access to locked iOS and Android devices where the device and state are supported
- Full file system extraction after access
- Premium as a Service and Premium ES deployment models
- Package tiers named Core, Pro and Unlimited on the current page
- Access capabilities that Cellebrite says now also power Inseyets
- Vendor training through the Cellebrite Certified Premium Operator course
Technical limitations
- Restricted sale to agencies; a private lab or a student cannot obtain it
- Support for a given phone model and operating system version is never guaranteed and changes with updates
- The product line is being renamed and absorbed into Inseyets, so contracts and documentation need care
- An attempt that fails may still change device state, which must be anticipated and documented
- Legal authority is a precondition, not a formality; an unauthorised attempt is a crime in India as elsewhere
Learning with DFRTI
Independent professional education covering the principles and workflows of Cellebrite Premium. DFRTI is not a vendor training centre and its courses are not vendor certifications.
Before you learn it
- Legal procedure for seizure and examination of devices under Indian law
- Secure evidence preservation, including network isolation and power management of a seized phone
- Mobile extraction fundamentals and the Physical Analyzer workflow
Disciplines
Related tools
- Cellebrite InseyetsInseyets is Cellebrite's current flagship for mobile evidence. It puts the extraction side (Inseyets.UFED) and the decoding side (Inseyets.PA) under one name and one licence.Cellebrite
- Cellebrite UFEDUFED is the name most examiners know for Cellebrite's phone extraction tool. Today it continues as the access and extraction part of the Inseyets suite.Cellebrite
- Cellebrite Physical AnalyzerPhysical Analyzer is the decoding and analysis side of Cellebrite's mobile workflow. PA 7 is being discontinued and the database-backed PA Ultra has become Inseyets.PA 10.x.Cellebrite
- Magnet GraykeyGraykey is Magnet Forensics' device access product for locked iOS and Android handsets. Magnet sells it only to public safety agencies in selected countries and vets every enquiry through an agency email address.Magnet Forensics
- MSAB XRY ProXRY Pro is the advanced tier of the XRY family, aimed at locked and encrypted devices that standard modules cannot reach. MSAB restricts it to practitioners who hold a current XRY certification.MSAB
Courses that cover this tool
MobileMobile & IoT ForensicsiOS ForensicsBFU and AFU states, iTunes and Finder backups, the keychain and iLEAPP for iPhone cases
MobileMobile & IoT ForensicsAndroid ForensicsExtract and examine Android phones, from ADB pulls to WhatsApp databases and ALEAPP reports
LegalFoundation & Legal CoursesLegal & Court ProceduresIndian law on electronic evidence: BSA Section 63, BNSS search and seizure and the IT Act.Official source
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