Lawrence Finch wrote:
m-zreik wrote:
I lost backup password. But I dont remember that i put any password . is their any solution to get back my backup??
Start guessing. You entered it, twice, possibly years ago. It never changes. You get unlimited guesses. to speed up the process uncheck "Encrypt Backup" and you will be prompted immediately. If you are like most people you reused a password, probably related to your iPhone or your Apple ID. If you have a company MS Exchange account on your phone it might have been a company email or domain password, and on rare occasion, it was actually entered by your system administrator.
To jog your memory, I have created a list of passwords that users in this thread have discovered when they guessed the right one:
- First iTunes account password (40 different users)
- Old iTunes account password, but not the oldest one
- Password used for almost all accounts (3 different users)
- All digit Password created a long time ago
- Computer/laptop login password (4 users)
- Laptop password (2 users)
- Computer password (4 users)
- Email password (3 users)
- iTunes with no capital letters
- Password not used anywhere else
- All numeric used in the past
- Password for old gaming site
- PC password (5 users)
- “iphonelogin”
- work computer password
- Current app store password (2 users)
- Paypal account password
- iPad unlock passcode
- Strongest variation of the base password I have ever used
- Old password
- Old work password
- Macbook password (2 users)
- Restriction passcode
- Gmail password (2 users)
- Current Apple ID password (2 users)
- Apple MobileMe password
- Apple ID password, but all lower case (8 users)
- Apple ID password, first one ever used, but all lower case (2 users)
- iPhone passcode when corporate profile was installed
- Passcode for a website
- iPhone screen unlock passcode (9 users)
- iPhone unlock passcode at the time the first backup was made (3 users)
- First password for work computer
- Old password used over 2 years ago (2 users)
- Previous owner’s iTunes password
- Current laptop password
- Wireless network password
- Electric bill and Skype password
- icloud password, all lower case
- Windows login for very old laptop
- iMac password (3 users)
- First iPhone 4 digit passcode
- iTunes password from last year
- 4 year old password
- iTunes password (current) (3 users)
- Old PC password
- Password for “Good” application
- Password used for everything+1234
- 1234 (4 users)
- 12345 (2 users)
- 0000
- Password I use for everything else (2 users)
- One of my husband’s passwords
- Some old non-Apple product password
- Screen passcode of the first iPhone that was backed up (2 users)
- Old password with different case on first letter
- “password” (2 users)
- Windows Administrator password (2 users)
- Original Windows Administrator password
- Mackbook administrator password
- “iphone”+4 digit unlock code
- Voicemail password
- asd
- “herpderp”
- “darwin” (first name from credit card account)
- First name, all lower case
- Ms Exchange account password
- Facebook password
- Browser password
- Network admin password
Nice list, Lawrence! My god, I can't believe this issue is continuing. ITunes needs to warn people about the implications of entering a password for a backup. If it said "This password will be used automatically without prompting for all future backups. Please record it in a safeplace" then people wouldn't continue making the same mistake they've been making since this thread started 7 years ago.
Yes, I've suggested it at Product Feedback - Apple. If all the people here reporting problems did too then it would be fixed.
