Lost Password to iPhone Backup

The DEFAULT apple password is '1234' if you don't ever recall setting a password enter this and it should start your back up. I never set a password for mine and after covering every single option that my password it could be I resulted in entering some passwords that could be default ones 1234 was the one that started the backup. Hope this helps.

Like many of you, I swear I didn't set up a password for my iphone backup. I tried every password possible, and none of them worked.

I stepped away from the laptop and phone, and gave it a few minutes to breathe. I mean, so I could breathe.

I came back a bit calmer, unplugged the phone from the USB, and reattached it back to the laptop.

Once it detected the phone, it no longer asked me if I wanted to use the recovery and did not prompt me for a password.

As I type this, it is copying my old apps... and I am praying that all goes well in a few minutes...

In summary:

1. calm down

2. unplug, reattach

3. pray for patience

this is ********...apple seriously need to fix this...i've never set a password for my backup and now its asking me for one...i've literally tried everything..0000..1234...my computer password...my itunes password...and i use the same password for everything anyway...i've been sitting here trying passwords for about 3 hours now....i just cant understand why the **** they just dont wanna work on this and fix it...and i'm not the only one thats having this problem....i lost all my contacts for work...my family & kids pictures...everything....i really regret getting an iPhone.

I used the same password as for my email and it works smh ....Apple fix this problem!

I wish it were as easy as everyone says. I just switched carriers from AT&T to Verizon so I had to get a new phone. I backed up my fiancee's phone because she has had an iPhone for a few years. I once put in a pass code on the phone to see how it works. Needless to say, she has never used the passcode feature. I've backed up the phone before and restored it before but NEVER ran into this problem. Now with the photos of her mom, who passed away in February, in the backup protected by a password from five years ago I'm totally lost! I paid Apple support $19 to hear them say sorry we can't help you. Are you sure you've tried every password? Yes. Yes, I have. Now it looks like I try a password cracker program for $199 because it's my last hope. And people get so ****** about the big Windows coporation--Apple isn't any much better. It just breaks my heart to see her these last couple of days and know I F'd up because I was just trying to get her information from one phone to another. If I had only stuck with AT&T we would have never had to backup the phone.

The camera roll is supposed to be temporary storage. Really...9 months and no effort at all was made to download the photos off of the camera?

I'm sorry for her, but come on...

If I had only stuck with AT&T we would have never had to backup the phone.

You do realize that's completely wrong... What would you have done if you'd dropped her phone and broken it? The photos would be just as gone.

Hey, i had the same problem. I have a 4th gen iPod Touch and i went to download the latest software. I came back a few hours later and i found that when i turned my iPod on, it just told me to plug it into iTunes. Then it said it could restore the backup i had made the day before, but i needed a password. Try the password for your Apple account but that didn't work for me, so i entered the one password i have for everything and iTunes accepted it and my iPod is actually restoring my backup right now. I remember that i actually entered that password about 6 months ago, but i didn't know what it was for.

Hope this helps.

Thank you miniphtbt - best advice and it worked!

Hey thanks for all your insite KiltedTim! It happens to be just 10 photos that she would look at once a week. She loves her mom.

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Really? What are you, 12 years old?

Get a life.

Plug your device on any Windows, Then password would be the PC you logged in.😉

Same problem and (after writing the waffle below) - solution as miniphtnb

I.....

...backed up iPhone4.

...wiped it.

...reconnected it.

...manually launched iTunes,

...went to "restore from backup"

It...

Asked for Password -

I....

...Tried a series of passwords that I though it might be - No luck. (I hadn't set phone nor encrypted backup)

..."Ejected" phone. Came on here, and whilst reading,

...reconnected phone back into laptop.

...went back to Itunes to try above suggestions of default codes and before I had a chance -

it...

...was already syncing?

Strange.

Fix or fluke? I don't know, but hope it helps someone.

Oh dear! That doesn't work either.

No Fix - No Fluke.

Tried the "defaults" as above. Tried the "windows login" although this is all incredibly optimistic. Tried a bunch of passwords I use/ have used. But this is all futile - I DID NOT set a password to encrypt. I only backed the thing up 10 minutes before I restored it. I was only restoring it because the thing hasn't worked properly since IOS6 upgrade.

Trying to contact Apple - minutes have long turned into hours. Very very frustrating!

Can't stream videos

Can't download podcasts

Apple Maps app - awful.

Very important data all now inaccesible.

Off to try password breakers - because Apple wont call back, "momentarily" was the word they used.

Aaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhh!

Finally spoke to Apple. "Please stay near your phone. You will receive a call momentarily" means, wait 24 hours, then call us.

Classics included:

"Just enter the password you set when you did the back up."

"I have never heard of this problem before"

"Would you like to speak to my supervisor" (which actually meant, "would you like to hear the aforemention statements but from a different person")

Politley I declined and in true Brit style, thanked them before saying goodbye.

In utter futility, booted up the cracking software. Based on a 6-12 set of 36 characters, using 2 x 2.5Ghz processors working at full tilt, it is going to take up to 2.5 Billion days to crack.

In short - I wish you luck - not in solving the problem, but keeping your sanity.

PS - if you use a MAC, they can get the password from the Keychain. If you use a PC - You have two Hopes and Bob's dead!

This issue was making me crazy this morning - iTunes was rejecting the one, stock, simple password I use in cases like this - and finally figured out that when your phone is locked (even if it's connected via USB), any attempt to enter a backup password will fail. I unlocked my phone and everything was fine.

I realize that this may not be the situation that others face but I figured I'd throw in one other solution. (This whole thing is poorly implemented if you ask me.)