iTunes asking for backup password???

Csound1 wrote:

How did 'whoever' know one of your passwords? Was it particularly simple.

My money's on "123456"

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.

WWhen you look at the Summary screen in iTunes is "Encrypt backup" checked? If it is either you checked it or you have a company MS Exchange account on your phone and your Administrator set a security policy requiring encrypted backups. The very first time you back up after this box is checked all future backups will be encrypted with the password you were prompted twice to enter. You will never be prompted again, but all backups will be encrypted. Even if you entered that password many months or years ago. The password is completely independent of any other password you may use unless you made it the same. So it won't be your Apple ID unless that is what you entered the first time you made an encrypted backup.

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.

It's an old password that was stored in itunes at some point. Makes no sense, but it worked for me. This is why lots of people say that it's the computer's password, your itunes password or whatever. It's just an old password. Took me 3 hours to figure it out.

OMG!!! What a struggle, i have recently had to restored my iphone, just to find out that i had forgotten my apple ID password with the 2 factor authentication turned on.. first of all... DONT USE this functionality it took forever to retrieve a new password, and now the problem of backup password from itunes, after reading all your opinions.. IT WORKED! 🙂 after traying at least 2 hours it was a 4 digit combination i had used a looooong time, when did or how did this was set up? i dont know! but it worked.. thanks for the help.

Yes thank you thank you

I have this problem and it is now 2016 and iOS 10. Nothing has changed! Wow. Epic fail for Apple.

There is no fail here. Encrypted backups do not create themselves. It is quite easy to turn encrypted backups on, and then forget that you did so. You can follow the recommendations in this thread which have provided many of the posters with a solution. Specifically, try any passcode you have ever used for anything. There is no limit to the number of times you can try to access the encrypted file, so just keep trying different passcodes. You can also try 1234 and 9999.

GB

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!

Then it must be magic, which does not change the outcome at all. 😟

Winnietp wrote:

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!

First of all, you DID encrypt your backup. You may have checked it 5 years ago, but you did. iTunes does not make arbitrary decisions on its own. You just forgot that you did.

There's nothing further to say.

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.

Someone put a password on that backup, anyone in your house who could have done it?

Absolutely not! I will lay this out step by step ... I backed up my phone, sat in front on the entire time and tried to restore it 20 minutes later. Next time I will video tape it for everyone.