password to unlock your iphone backup file

Guys its one of your old passwords. Think about what ever you set up the cloud (if you have since changed it) that is the most likely.

UPDATE AS OF 2015: Try your windows password!!! Apple must have seen the original problem and hooked the code in to pick up your computers windows server credentials as a fail safe, if you didn't have a password set up!!!

THANK YOU APPLE!!!

I just had this happen......freaked out, then went to keychain access and found the application password for "iPhone Backup"

the password is there. Just double click on the iPhone Backup line and check the show password box.

thank you for adding this note!!! I've tried every password I ever had and nothing was working. i literally read every note and comment and tried for 3 hours to unlock the data on my backup. thanks for telling me this worked. it worked for me too!!

My pleasure. I know the panic!

I depend on discussion threads all the time. I have never took the time to comment on a thread that has helped me until NOW.

I was so frustrated after trying to restore my iphone from a back up only 3 days old.

This thread is correct!!! fortunately I don't have many password I use. I have not used that password in 4 years and that's the password that worked!!

how do I do it

how do I unlock my iPhone with google

ho do I do it please

quenton0925 wrote:

how do I unlock my iPhone with google

There is no way to unlock your iPhone with Google.

OMG! I tried all kinds of different passwords that I had possibly used for itunes and my iphone, nothing worked. I even removed all Apple software (itunes, update, mobile,bonjour, app support, and quicktunes), deleted all registry keys and orphaned folders all over the place. When I reinstalled itunes, I still got the password prompt. This was the first post I found that suggested using the password for the computer, mine is windows 8.1. It started a backup without encryption as soon as I entered it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I found out why this worked for me. I had another apple id for a different device and was logged in with that id when the backup occurred. That id had the same password I used on my computer!

No password needed. And, no, no password was ever given, and encryption option NOT selected, EVER!!!

What I did:

log out of my iTUNES account;

exit iTUNES;

disconnect my iPhones from the computer;

start iTUNES, log into iTUNES with my AppleID when prompted;

connect my iPhones to my computer;

the new iPhone had an iOS software update, so I waited for that to complete itself;

entered my phone's password to my phone -

phone prompted me to verify the computer was ok/safe for this phone, I said yes;

syncing to new iPHONE took place;

no password requested, none given;

new phone has all the apps, photos, contacts that old one had.

FACTORY RESET NOT NEEDED!!! NO DATA LOST! 😎 😀

NO PROBLEMS.

FYI, I have the latest version of OSX, and associated software, on an iMac (2008 generation).

Incidentally, it's quite ridiculous - 😠 - to suggest that this many people could have forgotten that they encrypted their backups and/or that they have a backup password and what it is!

this worked for me, no case changes or numbers. usual password.

I came on here as I was experiencing this problem, however what I did was tried to use any password which I have used in the past for my logins for anything incase I used it then and it worked 🙂