Q: Lost Password to iPhone Backup

Hi,

I just had the same situation as you do. I try a tool for it named "iPhone Backup Unlocker by Tenorshare". Just follow the instruction or you may take a look in the youtube for tutorial. It works for me, my advice is try to limit the maximal password length into "3" so, the combination that the tools try to solve won't take a long time. I tried and it was solved (the only 2 first character) in about 1 - 2 hrs. At least the first 2 character would be bring you & remind you to the forgotten password.

cheers,

rizky

Ah, the spammer is back.

If your carrier is Verizon, try "verizon", "Verizon", "verizon1", etc etc

Just happened to me. After trying every password in the book it turned out to be the one I used to unlock my computer - nothing to do with iTunes.

I so seriously ****** off with everything to do with iPhone and iTunes right now.

I cannot restore data to new phone without passwd that I don't know

and i can't change that passwd because I don't know it - even though I deleted all backups

Right now I have a deactivated 4s and a useless 6s

You could back up the 4S to iCloud, then restore the iCloud backup. That will not require the password that you forgot.

After wasting an entire evening on this, I went to a different computer, created a new account, logged into it - no icloud, no apple id nothing.

STILL f'ing iTunes has a passwd that I have no clue about.

I'm thinking a class action law suit is warranted

Backing up to icloud was actually the first thing I tried, not enough space....

Ok, so perhaps disable icloud photo sharing.... WOWA says if I do that it will delete all photos from my iPhone.

Of course that message is ambiguous - will it delete photos on iCloud that *came* from my iPhone - don't care

or does it will mean it will wipe the photos from my iPhone (device) - DO care.

So iCloud does not appear to be a viable option.

iTunes is a crock and would appear to be deliberately broken at this point to drive people to iCloud so they can get more money.

Ie the whole thing is starting to smell like a scam

BTW to be clear, I used a new computer that I have never had my phone near, created a new user and iTunes says my phone has never been backed up but STILL there is a password set which I have no clue about.

I *never* set any passwd for iTunes on that computer or that user - iTunes BUG.

iCloud is a VERY viable option. You can increase your iCloud storage to 50 GB for 99¢ a month. Surely restoring your $800 phone is worth 99¢? You can cancel at any time, so that's the total cost.

random42 wrote:

 

I so seriously ****** off with everything to do with iPhone and iTunes right now.

I cannot restore data to new phone without passwd that I don't know

and i can't change that passwd because I don't know it - even though I deleted all backups

Right now I have a deactivated 4s and a useless 6s

Let's see...

A forgotten password is no different than a lost key.  Do you keep a spare key taped to your front door?

random42 wrote:

 

BTW to be clear, I used a new computer that I have never had my phone near, created a new user and iTunes says my phone has never been backed up but STILL there is a password set which I have no clue about.

I *never* set any passwd for iTunes on that computer or that user - iTunes BUG.

The fact that a phone has been backed up with a backup password is stored on the phone, so there is no way to create an unencrypted backup except by completely erasing the phone. This is to assure that your data remains secure. If it were possible to create an unencrypted backup of a phone that previously had an encrypted backup then anyone who found your phone (or any law enforcement agency or government agency) could simply make an unencrypted backup and have complete access to your data.

There are only two possibilities:

1. You entered a password sometime in the past (even years ago) when creating a backup, and you forgot.
2. You have a corporate MS Exchange account on your phone, and your IT administrator installed a security profile that required encrypted backups.

Backups do not become encrypted randomly; it takes a direct action to create an encrypted backup.

Same thing. This is horrible! It's doing more harm than good really. Apple *****, I've been wanting to get a Droid for months. I know the feel.

" it were possible to create an unencrypted backup of a phone that previously had an encrypted backup then anyone who found your phone (or any law enforcement agency or government agency) could simply make an unencrypted backup and have complete access to your data"

Utter nonsense. In such situation the phone would ask you to login on the screen. And if you can login on the device it is already game over as far as law enforcement or whoeveR. Anyway, according to your theory a phone that was never backed up has no security. How stupid would apple be if that were true? Just face it.Apple doesn't know what they are doing.

Does the droid have a backdoor to bypass passwords?