Iphone backup password

Yes, I kept the same. from what I have read we tried all passwords from my husbands mcbook and from my phone. we will try some application for decoding the password, and I have scheduled phone call with slovak apple support.

The decoding (paud) software have been running for 3 days now, without success. If it had been any easy combination of numbers (as is code for old iphone) it would have been found. We used all keychain passwords from my and my husbands phones and mcbook. I start to feel crazy, but we know we did not set password in that store, simply because we were paying attetntion and had little time until closure of istore. Any ideas? How long can the password software run before decoding? I need a hacker! We even considered that maybe after 8 days the old phone may still be in Honolulu istore, there is a way how to restore data from phone even after it was deleted…

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There are many people in this forum who have the same problem and get answers that they simply dont remember password… I had 128GB data (mostly photos), I have some photos on icloud but not many. There must be some solution. I was thinking - I had iphone 5s long time ago, (that phone was migrated to Xr which I backuped on 8th february) but I dont remember connecting it to my itunes (which I did not used, but it was installed on phone). We have tried all keychain passwords, even old ones. How is it possible that Finder let mi create backup without asking password? I have been crying for whole week because of this, I know it is stupid but there was lot of important things for me.

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The phone store should have helped you restore to the new phone before you left the store.

• I am replying to this. We have used apple devices for some time now, I had complete trust for my husband backing it up, even when it was first time using a Finder on mcbook. We have never had any bad experience with apple, on the contrary - the devices communicate and function together in amazing way. That is why we thought that it will be smooth process, and it was - when backup was completed (5 minutes before closing store) the shop assistan took a look and was happy (and we were happy too) that we made it and were able to backup in time and trade in phone Xr. We left for airport then. In amsterdam we realized that I cannot access the backup. We thought that it will have some solution, in the end - there is a proof that backup is mine, it is on our computer, there must be a way!
• And telling people what they should have done differenťly is not helpful, NOW I know that that was not SAFE way, but I really had no idea how risky it was indeed! I trusted apple functioning. If it asks password I create one and REMEMBER it, not this hunt for some old potentionaly non-existent password. And apple support which tells me that there was password and we had to set it when making backup but we forgot it. Really - we were 3 witnessess there and we would remember what happened 1 day ago!
• any idea how to solve this? I feel so cheated by apple! I lost all of my data! It is secured on external hardisk in case aliens arrive and there will be someone able to help.

Unfortunately that was the first backup (using itunes or finder) In the past I only manually transfered photos to my Lenovo (windows). But I dont have stored photos from last months.

I would never imagined that using apple device for backup might be more tricky or dangerous as it is.

I contacted apple support in Slovakia (reccomended solution outside apple by phone) and in US - they dont have solution. I have session in local iStore tomorow morning. Iˇ

I need to get access to the photos and videos (from surgeries) which I did not send to friends.

I need to get access to my data stored on my mcbook and encrypted by some apple bug (because I have no idea how that could happen and encryption box would be checked otherwise)

thanks for all replies,

the one thing that would help would be anyones experience with decoding the password (how long and if it was sucessfull at all)

if it is not legal and it is not legal to discuss it here (deleted replies) then apple should come with solution for the loss of data.

because it is ridiculous - you pair couple of your own apple devices and think how wonderfull apple devices work and Woila! All photos lost, not official solution offered.

I know you are not apple support, I am sorry if I sound angry, but I was thinking about getting a divorce in weak moment (it was my husband who choose this way of backup)

This was the first time we backuped this phone on any computer, so not really helpful answer. Thanks for effort though.