Q: Lost Password to iPhone Backup
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Aug 9, 2015 1:25 AMby pshute,manjisonu wrote:
worked for me too. Thanks for the tip. Seems like a default password that Apple uses to encrypt backups
As far as I can tell, there's no way to set a default password, only ways to force it to ask you for one to use. Whatever suggestion you found to work for you is most likely just a common password people tend to pick when it asks you to set one.
The reason you don't remember setting it is that you (or even someone else) may have set it a long time ago when you backed up your phone. After the first time, it uses the same password for subsequent backups without asking.
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Aug 13, 2015 3:45 PMby sdiegon,Its amazing 2015 and i got a solution for my new iphone 6 from 3 years ago, thanks you all it was just plug and unplug but i tried every possible password and i don't remember to set one. But it makes me wonder if I made the right decision about my new phone, so many years and no a serious bug to this.
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Aug 13, 2015 5:24 PMby pshute,petermac87 wrote:
If you do not like the phone then Sell it and buy another brand.
Cheers
Pete
While I agree that this might not warrant dumping the iPhone, there has to be a reason why this thread is now on its 29th page. I think this is an iTunes design fault, not an iPhone fault, and it's almost a cosmetic one. They just need to change it so that it spells out more clearly to users the future implications of setting a password, and to more clearly warn users when the encryption box is already ticked that the backup they're about to do will be encrypted.
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Aug 29, 2015 8:55 AMby emkelder,I had this problem and I was getting so frustrated! I also NEVER set a password! I called Apple Care 3 times and all they told me was "there is nothing we can do about it." I kept trying passwords but nothing was working! BUT GET THIS!
If you don't remember ever setting a password, for my iphone 6, the password was 12345! It was the default Itunes password!
I really hope this helps any of you because I completely understand the frustration!
Have a good day!
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Aug 29, 2015 1:21 PMby jiokay,My two cents:
- I hit the jackpot with password 0000
- however I did try that already many hours prior succeeding and it didn't work – perhaps it was rebooting iPhone, perhaps rebooting PC, perhaps something else that made it work at later stage
- changing the real Apple ID password didn't help (and now it forced me to change it, can't change it back to what it was anymore!), the restore password was not the Apple ID password
- at some stage iTunes started copying apps and stuff even though it didn't really do the real restore or accept the password – so what the heck was that, a partial restore?!
Very, very far away from being completely tested and thought out. Insanely annoying.
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Sep 18, 2015 6:02 PMby wsconn1,Same problems as everyone. Thanks Apple. Finally, I plugged my old iPhone into iTunes and backed it up again. Ejected the old phone, plugged in the new one and Zip! Everything started transferring. No password. Huh? Looks like next time I'll look for a non-Apple product.
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Sep 22, 2015 4:47 PMby TLF76,I lost my phone and had to order a new one.
Just got it and have been trying to restore my new phone.
So far not one password has worked.
*****!!
I have tried several suggestions and nothing has worked.
I came across yours and just unplugged my replacement phone.
When I plugged it back in my ITUNES asked to download and install the latest update.
I clicked on save and finished that process.
ITUNES just started syncing on its own.
I PRAY TO GOD THIS WORKS!!!!
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Sep 28, 2015 12:24 PMby Lawrence Finch,theburton wrote:
It makes no sense to me that iTunes would grab the windows password but it did the same for me.
What you think happened is impossible. Microsoft security is excellent; the Windows password is not stored in plain text anywhere on your computer. So if it is your Windows password that is the backup password the only possibility is that you entered it. Windows would not allow iTunes to "grab" it.
