iTunes asking for backup password???

The only way to change it or remove it is to enter the current password. And in the 27 pages of posts, there are many examples of how to remember the password. And also alternative ways to back up (hint: iCloud) if you can't guess it.

Hi

I faced two problems with my backup file, first one it was corrupted and I couldn't to restore my files after I erased my iPhone 6, I searched and tried many ways and many specialists to fix my problem, by internet, after nine hours on it, I found a program fix the corrupted backup files, I tried it but when finished I faced the second big problem and it added corruption to my files and if I purchase the program it will fixing the corrupted file and remove any encryption on it.

I purchased the program with Amoun 60 US Dollars, and it fixed my big problems.

Come on, Apple!

This was posted six years ago and you still haven't fixed it.

Just encountered the same issue, and the posts in here were really helpful. But it was pure luck that I remembered my old password from over a year back. And it's not correct as some people here say; the correct password is one that I am not using on ANY devices or services at the moment.

josefinwinther wrote:

Come on, Apple!

This was posted six years ago and you still haven't fixed it.

Just encountered the same issue, and the posts in here were really helpful. But it was pure luck that I remembered my old password from over a year back. And it's not correct as some people here say; the correct password is one that I am not using on ANY devices or services at the moment.

There is nothing to fix. The first time you make an encrypted backup you enter a password - twice. That password never changes, because it is actually the seed that creates the encryption key. It can be a password that you never used on any device for any purpose (mine is). But it is a password that you entered. There is no other way a password can be set on an encrypted backup.

I don't know who you represent, but from your reply I have learned that we are talking about a password I entered 4-5 years ago.

To me Apple is all about intuitive UI. And that is NOT intuitive UI. Not even close.

I don't know what message or information I was given some day 3-5 years ago when I was asked to enter this password. But Apple usually makes sure that I understand what I'm asked. To ask for a password that I was asked to construct many years ago, without ANY further information, description or explanation is just far fetch. I made my way out of that situation because I am a freak when it comes to remember random information like that. Any given user would just

A: be lucky to have that password still

B: be patient enough to go through any password he or she has ever used.

If you think that is not a UI-issue that needs to be fixed (a simple explanation would do it, when prompting the password), I hope you don't work within the UI-field.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation. I've fixed it, so I'm kind of done with this subject. I was just hoping that someone from Apple would take this thread with 1200+ other people having the same issue seriously.

I think what it needs is a message window that says in 36 point type and flashing red text

WRITE DOWN THE PASSWORD YOU JUST ENTERED. IT WILL NEVER CHANGE, AND YOU WILL ALWAYS NEED IT TO RESTORE YOUR BACKUP WHETHER YOU RESTORE IT TOMORROW OR IN 10 YEARS.

Except that I don't think it will help.

Encrypting your device's backup does not require your password to initiate another (encrypted) backup ... you are only prompted for your password if (a) you want to turn encryption off, or (b) you go to install the backup back onto your device after erasing it. You arenot prevented from making backups to your computer even if you don't know the password, so how exactly is your device crippled?

I am prevented from making unencrypted backups to my computer, and I am also prevented from making encrypted backups to my computer using a new password.

You're not telling the whole story here. So what did you do, change computers? Change hard drives on your computer? Delete the (encrypted) backup file? (I'm not sure that would lead to this) If you're not trying to turn off encryption or install the backup, these are the only things I can think of which may prompt you for the password which you forgot.

I don't know what happened to the backup file. I think I probably reinstalled my Windows since I made it. I may have also deleted it once to save disk space.

Normally, the only thing that should require a password after encrypting something is when you want to decrypt it. I don't want to decrypt it, yet it still wants the password from me.

OK, I will make it simple and clear (although this has been covered ad nauseum in the thread):

• If you have an encrypted backup ("Encrypt Backup" is checked) it is encrypted because you or someone else checked "encrypt backup". Period. That is the only way it can become encrypted.
• The "someone else" can be the administrator of a Microsoft Exchange email server if you have a company email account on your phone. There's at least one case where it was someone's daughter.
• The first time you back up after it is checked the person who did the backup had to enter a password. Twice for confirmation.
• The password entered that first time will be the backup password forever, unless you explicitly change it; even if it was entered 10 years ago. It will stay the same.
• The password is more than a password; it is the encryption key, and is saved in the encrypted backup and the iOS device.
• There is no way to bypass encryption, except to enter the correct passcode.
  • Backing up to a new computer will not bypass it.
  • Deleting the encrypted backups will not bypass it.
  • Buying or downloading software that claims to bypass it will not bypass it.
• The good news is that you get unlimited guesses, and to speed up the process of guessing, uncheck Encrypt Backup and you will be prompted immediately. Most people who have succeeded have found it was a password that they had used elsewhere.

I am upgrading from iphone 7 to iphone 7plus so i backuped my file in tunes after i connected my iphone 7plus to itunes and i entered to restore my file its asking some password actually I didn’t give any password while backuping so i need a solution for this

Someone gave me the solution that worked for me. Turns out I had indeed set up a password years ago, as the lock icons I mentioned suggested, and completely forgotten -- and the reason I was able to completely forget this is that Keychain was providing it to iTunes whenever I did a restore. So I didn't even have to know this was happening.

What was inexplicably different this time is that something must have happened to Keychain or iTunes (either due to an update, glitch, or some new setting) that severed the connection between the two. iTunes didn't even offer to ask for permission to use Keychain. So I manually retrieved the password from Keychain, typed it into iTunes, and it worked.

I then checked older iPhone backups in iTunes, and interestingly, they did still automatically retrieve the password from Keychain. Only the newest one failed. No clue why.

But perhaps this is what happened with other folks, who didn't recall they had a password because it was being accessed automatically in the past. Check Keychain for passwords on older backups, just in case.

Backups only include system settings and app data. The iCloud backup for my 256 GB iPhone is only 3 GB. All other content (music, videos, apps) are reloaded either from iTunes or from Apple's servers. If yours is larger you can buy additional 50GB backup for 99¢ a month, but you probably won't have to.

i have got a new iPhone 5 as a replacement for my old one.

before resetting my old one i had created a back-up without password.

iTunes asked me for back-up password when restoring the back-up on the new iPhone 5.

i tried applying above procedure on the new iPhone but did not work.

then i tried to restore my old iPhone with above procedure and it worked using my Apple ID password.

will now make a back-up with password :-) and copy it to the new one.

Looks like an iTunes bug to me mate. Backed twice without encryption it still required a password. An ancient iTunes password worked in the end.

Do you have a corporate Exchange account set up on your phone? If so, the administrators can enforce policies requiring encrypted backups. If that's the case, try your Exchange password.

I did not set a password for iTunes restore now I can't restore my new phone