iTunes asking for backup password???

I have the same problem today after 4 years between the first segnalation of this problem! , with the aggravating circumstance that none of the suggested solutions works , because are all mistaked and only worked for lucky event...I'm sure no password I have choose today ...maybe 1 year before for another backup.....

.:ITunes make backup on your computer without asking for a password , but taking it automatically from, who knows where?, and after you ask for it

.....and then I lost the data , or rather are inside my computer and I can not download them . Even the assistance apple has not been able to help me , then :

UNTIL APPLE DOES NOT FACE THE PROBLEM NOT TRUST THE BACUP ON COMPUTER !

OMG!!! I Thank you and my daughter thanks you. I have been beating my head trying figure out what happened, I didn't check the box for back up and it wouldn't let me restore her phone. all is good Thank you!

Not at all, just a password that contains upper case, lower case and numbers. If you don't know what we are talking about on here maybe you should stay out of the conversation?

I backed up my phone as usual, itunes never asked for a password, it is not encrypted. Then after restoring the phone i tried to load the backup I had just made 5 mins ago and it asked for a password. 1234 did not work, 0000 did not work, windows login did not work and more importantly my Apple ID did not work.

Thanks, someone being helpful.! I don't remember setting this password but like you say it much have been months maybe a year ago. I looked at my iTunes and the encrypt backup is checked which I also don't remember doing, I've never used this feature but that would make sense, I've checked it at some point in the past and set a password. Thanks for helping explain this. Daz.

Wow, you must be a crazy apple fan! First of all I absolutely did not encrypt my back-up. I specifically backed it up the same day knowing I was going to use it. Secondly, read the thousands (if not millions) of posts from others that did not set a password or encrypt the back-up. I suppose we are all idiots and did not notice that we selected encryption! Apple never makes mistakes!

Lol. So what your saying is software that remembers something I did 5 years ago verses what I did NOT do 20 minutes prior to restoring the back-up is my fault. I see you logic. That is not a software issue at all. the Apple tech supervisor I spoke to is also using your logic. "We have no known problems" but yours (and others) must have glitched". Lol. So much denial. Just like the tons of people experiencing issues with the latest iOS (10.2). I guess it is my fault that my phone drains in less than an hour and my fault it shuts off at 30%, apps not loading, etc. Lol. Yup. Apple is perfect.

Wow, we have gone full circle. As stated originally, this is a software problem, glitch, etc. EVERY software company has these. Apple is not exempt. This is why their updates state they are correcting issues, making more stable, correcting security flaws, etc. This is also the fourth (?) update since September.

I just asked Siri to set my alarm and she repeated "ok, I have set you alarm for 8am" ...five time and displayed the alarm 5 times! ...but I suppose that is my fault too. Apple does not have glitches. I must have stuttered or maybe there was an echo in my room.

Oh and as I was surfing the net using Safari, my battery was at 44% and the phone just shut down. Then I got the plug symbol that the phone was dead. Also my fault since Apple is perfect. Maybe my skin absorbed the energy.

Weird situation. I just erased my phone and am restoring it. I only back up to iTunes. I tried restoring, and it asks me for this password to unlock the iPhone backup. Like others here, I have no recollection of ever setting that up, and "Encrypt iPhone backup" is indeed unchecked in iTunes. I've tried every password I've ever used with Apple, to no avail.

Weirder: I see that in iTunes/Preferences/Devices, the "lock" icon does appear beside the visible iPhone backups going back a couple years. Which suggests they have been encrypted.

But even weirder: I just replaced my iPhone 4 months ago, and was able to restore it from the iTunes backup without entering any password -- just as I always have.

I can't figure this out. Private computer, nobody else has access. Even if I had set this up years ago and forgot, how could I have been restoring without a password until today? Meanwhile, I seem to have lost a lot of important stuff.

See in my case I know I checked the box. However it did not ask me to enter a password, so how the **** do I know which one Itunes used? I see in some of the other comments that it used a password that was super old from an old itunes account and all that crap. Well if that is the case I have had iphones since the 1st one. I changed that password like 5 years ago and have always used the same one. That password doesn't work, my old one doesn't work, and my work one doesn't work. I use the same 4/5 passwords for everything. It is none of those, so how do you know? I think being condescending about the password issue isn't necessary and talking to people like they are stupid is also not necessary. People are panicking because everything they have is on there.

Funjunkie6 wrote:

Thanks pjlove. BUT why does iTunes not tell us this!! 😠

Because it is WRONG. If that's the passcode the only reason it is the passcode is because it is what you entered when you made your first encrypted backup. You had to enter it TWICE to confirm it.

Anyway, iTunes has no idea what your backup passcode is, so it couldn't tell you anyway.

I tried that and every other password I can think of but no go

Be carefull of cap/low caps (that was my mistake).

I just completed a restore and am now getting an error mesage....😕

I copy and pasted my password in to me.com which worked, and the into itunes restore password prompt, and it failed.