Lost Password to iPhone Backup

HI everybody,if you are facing the same issue here,i have try and it works!

if you don even remember setting up a password or you are very sure you know

your password well,try key in "0000"

I don't recall setting my password, either. The summary idea doesn't work if there is no info on your phone. It's not even shown as an option. I use only a few passwords. I had one main generic on that I used for all such things. It doesn't work an dneither do my other passwords. I have tried all sorts of variations of my children's names and birthdays, just in case, knowing it was a waste of time. I wouldn't have chosen something zany and off the wall. I don't store top-secret information on my phone, nothing legal or financial. I don't get it.

Weirdest thing. I just flipped back to my iTunes window, where the incorrect password window was still open. I clicked okay, and it just started backing up. I don't know what happened. Hopefully, everything is there!

I hope you have already got your staff from Iphone back. I almost got insane yesterday after I erase everything to unlock my Iphone from AT&T. I did not remember set a password for the backup and when i tried to restore to the backup, it kept asking me for password. I have tried everything possible. Then I found it is the the first pin I set to unlock the screen, after a very depresed day since yesterday afternoon. The curerent pin won't work if you have changed it since you set up your iphone initially. I hope this helps. I am decided to use Android and now I am firm. No more iphone or any other apple product.

I know there are a lot of answers here and I have tried them all with no luck. I also did not have a password set for my backups and it still asks me for one. Similarly I had a lot of important texts and photos that I need to get back. Emails and contacts are ok as I have restored from google.

I went to the Summary page on itunes as suggested above and this showed no password was set so I set one (First time and now if I want to change it I have to put in the original, hence no password was set previously) and then tried again but still no luck.

I have tried all my old passwords and the ones suggested here "0000", "1234", etc., tried the Elcom password finder which came up with "No password found" on the backup file which makes sense since there was never one set but this doesn't help as I am still having no luck and still am asked for a password for the backup. I can't put no password in as without something the only option is to cancel the backup request. Anyone have another possible answer?

Had the same issue for an employee's phone and found that they backed up the phone once and when I backed it up again it automatically used that password. He entered in his password and it restored the backup i created on my computer. Bazaar but it worked.

All you need is to remember the "Passcode" you used to lock your iphone at that time, for the time you last backed up the phone.

For me, I put in the passcode/lock code that I had used on my iphone when I first ever used the device, it was just four short numbers and "voila" it worked. It was different from the passcode that I have on it right now, I inputed the current code I'm using and that didn't work. But the key is to put the old passcode.

After trying everything listed in this discussion I finally found that although I had never set an encryption password for my backup it had chosen to automatically set my password as my windows administrator password.

Hopr this helps

did you ever find an answer to this man? i have the same problem right now and it is really frustrating.

No luck for me yet but I am getting the feeling that it will be the password put on by the company I worked for who originally purchased the phone rather than anything I would have used so I am still chasing up with them. Will update if I have any luck. Very annoying and dissappointing that Apple can't answer the question.

Just happened to me all i did was unplug then plug it back up and it started restoring

Just happened to me, too. Unplugged and plugged back in several times and it finally just picked up my old iphone and went with it.

Hello,

Well, my phone originally always worked with me while backing up, still does, my dilemma is, I decided to see what this encryption thing would do. So, I checked the box to encrypt back up files and it ask for a password, that's when I created a password. I backed up my iphone 3gs and checked the back up files, in at least the ones that were ledgable and they no longer were ledgable, they were all encrypted. I thought, cool. I then went back to decrypt the files and now the password does not work. I tried to un-check the encrypt box for my phone and it ask for the password, no biggie right? I mean I just created it so as to protect and encrypt my back up, I go to decrypt it and I cannot do it. So I guess unless I reset my phone the back up is encrypted forever, although I dont understand that since I was the one who created the password to encrypt it. I think apple dropped the ball here on this one. I still can back up the phone and well, I wish now it wasn't encrypted now, Oh well, any answers would be appreciated.

Jeddy

Hey guys, i had the exact same problem. I didn't even remembered setting a password and tried evererything i could "remember". But then, as last hope, i tried my UNLOCKING CODE (the one that you put to unlock and use your device) with 4 numbers and... IT WORKED!!! I don't know if i set that before but you might try it. Hope it works for you!

You just saved my small skinny *** 😀