Q: Lost Password to iPhone Backup

unclefungus has the right solution. despite the fact the my phone WAS connected via USB, i disconnected it anyway and reconnected. this time the password also was wrong but after i recieved the fault message i closed it and somehow the back up began

thanks unclefungus

Here's a possible solution if you dont know the password:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5137913?start=15&tstart=0

Thanks so much!

I have been trying for so long to find the answer!!

It was my old password from my original account with lowercase!!!

Awesome work!!!!

Cheers!

This worked for me! Although I am pretty sure that I had set my encryption password differently, using the first passcode I had used for this device worked!

Sailing in same boat I also went nuts trying to figure out password. after two days of constant trying I tried my name as password and Voila !!!

though I do not remember if I ever set the password. I was restoring it on computer which does non have my itunes lib as I lost it with HD crash

Amazing. Unplug, replug... worked out. Thanx. what a weird little clitch.

UGH. Nevermind. That only sync'd didn't restore. The fun part is, this is my fourth phone since june. I have used the same password everytime. this time, it doesn't work. FUN!

Ok, I was shocked to see I had set a password to my backups and after trying dozens of possible passwords I realized that it was the password of the computer where I am, but not the latest updated password, one that I had set about 1 year ago... strange...

Either way: my recommendation is to try ALL passwords that you used before to access to your computer's session where your iTunes is installed in (mine was an iMac).

Good luck to all

thanks ,lawrence finch, this totally helped "jog" my memory and it worked! It was a passowrd i set up a long time ago different from my apple id password...thanks!

This just worked for me! I had no memory of ever setting a password for encrypted backups. After seeing this post I tried my old facebook password, and it worked.

Brilliant suggestion, I was about to hit panic mode until I read your comment! Saved me from a **** lot of trouble

That worked for me.

im having the same problem, but i cant remember my old password and cant retreve a new one and had a backup and cant restore it back to my phone because i cant remember my password, what can i do?

Hello. I too was prompted for a password I never typed when I wanted to

transfer data from my Iphone 4 to my Iphone 5S.

I made a new backup to the wifes Imac into Itunes.

After this I plugged the new Iphone in and was again prompted for a password I never typed.

I was very unhappy at this stage. Every password I could remember ever to have used had been tried.

I then typed in the four digits that I use for unlocking my Iphone4.

It worked.

I had the same problems and typed in every possible 4 digit numbered paswword I could think I had ever used to lock my iPhone.  I was about to give up and decided to try all of my apple ID passwords (1 capital letter, 1 lower case, 1 number) and finally with many different guesses, one of those passwords from what seemed like forever ago worked!

I'm thinking there was a glitch because I had never used the password to actually lock my phone before.

Hope that may help for some of y'all! Good luck!