Unity Persistent Data Path

The Unity persistentDataPath is read only and will return the path where you can save data that will be persitent betwen sessions. Even app updates doesn’t touch the files in this location, unless you want it to. You can do what ever you want to with files in this location. They are completly safe from the operating system and other apps or games. You can check it out in the Unity Documentation.

Windows

Windows Store Apps: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\<productname>\LocalState

Windows Editor: %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\<companyname>\<productname>

Standalone Editor: %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\<companyname>\<productname>

Android

Android: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/<packagename>/files

Mac / iOS

Mac (Newer versions of Unity): ~/Library/Application Support/company name/product name

Mac (Older versions of Unity): ~/Library/Application Support/unity.company name.product name

iOS: /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/<guid>/Documents

tvOS: Not supported

Linux

Depending on which Distro. But these two are used.

Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d

Linux: $HOME/.config/unity3d

Web

WebGL: /idbfs/<md5 hash of data path>

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