Lost Password to iPhone Backup

Actually, I don't recall ever setting one. Now however, I have a new phone and cannot restore it from the backup, as there it prompts me for a password I don't have! I tried all the ones I've used for my iPhone and pretty much every other one of which I can think, all to no avail. I need the data in the back up. But I can't get to it. I've already tried the keychain route to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.7 and iTunes 10.2.2. The iPhone is an iPhone 4.

iPhone 4

Posted on May 31, 2011 9:28 PM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2017 1:14 PM

If you are like most people it is a password that you reused. I posted a long list of passwords that people had discovered worked a while ago. Here it is again:


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”

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







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Nov 30, 2016 6:04 AM in response to Swamprat72

If it's not the same thing.

Apple let you set a password for the operating system when you log onto your desktop. Every other software could possibly have their own password. The iPhone back up in iTunes is essentially it's own little software program within iTunes .

If you go into your keychain you can actually type the word iPhone and if you set it back up password or even if you don't remember doing it it should show up. When you see it then you would type your regular desktop password to actually read it , just like any other password and keychain that you may have from websites that you have gone too.

Dec 7, 2016 6:34 AM in response to Royalratch

If you are on a Macintosh. Go to the keychain application. You can go up to the right to the magnifying lens type keychain and it will show up. Once you are on your keychain application you can look up the word "backup " "iPhone" or both. In the list below everything that has those words will come up. If you see something that says iPhone backup or both select it .

Than you can see what the password associated with that back up is. It will be hidden , you will have to type in your computer password which is the one you set up when the operating system first logs on. When you type in your Computer password it will then show you the password for the iPhone back up.

All of your passwords are in your keychain. It is possible that the password associated with the back up might be your overall computer password. The only way to find out is to go to the keychain and do as I described above. The back ups on iTunes are essentially their own little application that live inside the iTunes software

I don't think that Apple secretly installs a password on the backup unless you choose to do so. At any rate that is exactly where the backup password will be located. Just go to the keychain and look it up.

Dec 7, 2016 7:54 AM in response to Swamprat72

Swamprat72 wrote:


I use Keychain on my iPhone, but don't have a Mac. My question is, if I buy a Macbook, and sync my phone to itunes, will my keychain transfer over and be saved on the Macbook. If so then I would be able to view the password, correct?

Yes, but the backup password will not be in it, because it is saved in the keychain on a Mac when you create the first encrypted backup.

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