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Q: password to unlock your iphone backup file

how to do i find the password to unlock your iphone backup file

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 7:04 AM

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  • by riddim junkie,

    riddim junkie riddim junkie Aug 17, 2015 2:07 AM in response to carlo688
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    Aug 17, 2015 2:07 AM in response to carlo688

    awesome! thanks. used my itunes pw. saved me alot of hassel!

  • by aziz.husain90,

    aziz.husain90 aziz.husain90 Aug 18, 2015 8:43 AM in response to dianafromherndon
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    Aug 18, 2015 8:43 AM in response to dianafromherndon

    Thanks for all the comments here. After soul searching, I could recall the password and it worked for me!

  • by ewc,

    ewc ewc Aug 20, 2015 12:41 PM in response to dianafromherndon
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    Aug 20, 2015 12:41 PM in response to dianafromherndon

    TRY THEM ALL!!!

    LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PASSWORD YOU HAVE USED ON YOUR COMPUTER (NOT ICLOUD OR DEVICE CODE) IN THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS OR FEW YEARS.  I HAVE TO RESET WORK PASSWORDS FREQUENTLY SO CHANGE MY HOME PASSWORDS ACCORDINGLY ON MY WINDOWS AND MAC COMPUTERS.  MY PASSWORD WAS ONE THAT I USED FOR THESE COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF THE PASSWORD GENERATED (I WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO LOOK BACK AT THESE) ITUNES PASSWORDS THAT I USE. 

  • by nnathan11,

    nnathan11 nnathan11 Aug 28, 2015 5:45 PM in response to Reddymnd
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    Aug 28, 2015 5:45 PM in response to Reddymnd

    thank you! i tried everything and this is the thing that workd

  • by puffy_fluff,

    puffy_fluff puffy_fluff Oct 8, 2015 5:00 PM in response to dianafromherndon
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    Oct 8, 2015 5:00 PM in response to dianafromherndon

    I have the "Good" application installed to access my work e-mail.  The password was the one I use for that application.  Apparently "Good" forces encryption of the backup.   Yay.

  • by kkellerr,

    kkellerr kkellerr Nov 27, 2015 7:23 AM in response to DJDCA
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    Nov 27, 2015 7:23 AM in response to DJDCA

    I could not figure out my backup password though I knew I had done it before.  I read your post and then I tried the password I use for everything, plus 123 and it didn't work. So i tried again and added "1234" at the end...and it worked! I was so happy!!! I do not recall having this as my password but I'm going to write it down somewhere so this stress never happens again. Thank you!

  • by Ikuru,

    Ikuru Ikuru Dec 7, 2015 7:21 AM in response to DJDCA
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    Dec 7, 2015 7:21 AM in response to DJDCA

    THIS IS THE ANSWER! It's asking for the FIRST thing you ever typed in to itunes, that is to say the Password that was never accepted (in my case, less numbers, no capital letters etc) Love you! Thank u so much.
    Obviously this is a Serious GLITCH!

  • by mtrgirl,

    mtrgirl mtrgirl Dec 11, 2015 8:20 PM in response to carlo688
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    Dec 11, 2015 8:20 PM in response to carlo688

    This is a tricky one.. but yes i used an old Itunes password and it worked.... so think back 5 or 8 years ago... what password did you use..

  • by daslyk06,

    daslyk06 daslyk06 Dec 26, 2015 4:24 AM in response to Lawrence Finch
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    Dec 26, 2015 4:24 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

    Lawrence Finch has a point! Try using the password you use for your Mac/Windows login.

  • by macnadmk1,

    macnadmk1 macnadmk1 Dec 30, 2015 9:20 AM in response to Nathni99a
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    Dec 30, 2015 9:20 AM in response to Nathni99a

    This was the shortest and least egotistical advice on this thread which worked!!!!! Thank you very much. ALL. Follow this advice!!!

  • by clusterfart,

    clusterfart clusterfart Dec 31, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Lawrence Finch
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    Dec 31, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

    I went through all of this having encrypted my backups. But after some glitch, I reset my phone (5s) knowing I had one good backup...then I had the issue described in this thread.


    After going the possible permutations and combinations I could think of, I glanced at this post....

     

    Lawrence Finch wrote:

     

    You WERE asked for a password at some point, but you probably don't remember or didn't realize what it was for. The ONLY times a backup will be encrypted is if you check the "Encrypt iPhone Backup" box or if you have a corporate-provisioned Exchange email account on your phone. Your IT department can then require that backups be encrypted. If they do you will be prompted for a password the first time you back up after installing the Exchange account, but not again.


    ....but thought:


    "Nahh, it wouldn't remember that REALLY OLD password..."


    ...or would it?


    The first (OLD OLD) attempt failed.

     

    ...and the last one (OLD) I thankfully remembered. It stalled on restart...and had to restart it. But after going through the initial passcode setup, it worked like a charm. The original glitch cleared up too (some minor thing display issue that wasn't worth all of this anyway).

     

    Several lessons here depending on what you did.

  • by meela$h,

    meela$h meela$h Jan 5, 2016 10:43 AM in response to dianafromherndon
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    Jan 5, 2016 10:43 AM in response to dianafromherndon

    I wouldn't be so skeptical and judgmental of the people who feel something funny is going on here... I just restored my iphone from backup twice in two days (because I'm playing around with jailbreaking and I had broken something). The first time I restored without being asked for password, the second time, restoring from the exact same backup in the exact same conditions (after full delete and restore of phone) and it asked me for password. Again, the password was an ancient iTunes password that I never used for anything besides my apple ID. So clearly, at some point the encryption password is set based on your iTunes password but not linked with it to update when you change your iTunes password.

  • by deggie,

    deggie deggie Jan 5, 2016 10:46 AM in response to meela$h
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    Jan 5, 2016 10:46 AM in response to meela$h

    That could have something to do with your jailbreak experiment.

  • by meela$h,

    meela$h meela$h Jan 8, 2016 8:33 AM in response to deggie
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    Jan 8, 2016 8:33 AM in response to deggie

    backups are encrypted and stored by the computer, on the computer, jail breaking wouldn't have anything to do with it.

  • by Mr.hotestshot,

    Mr.hotestshot Mr.hotestshot Jan 14, 2016 8:25 PM in response to Hokis82
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    Jan 14, 2016 8:25 PM in response to Hokis82

    I've figured it out. The very fist itunes password you make is the answer . From day 1 when you first create your account that password you typed is the answer.

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