password to unlock your iphone backup file

T19BF wrote:

Not exactly, people INSISTED that "I" absolutely entered a password, no matter how many times I said I didn't.

Never once did anyone bother to inquire whether somebody else may have owned the phone before

Probably because you said this:

"It doesn't make sense. I have backed up my phone previously unencrypted with no problem.

3 days ago I decided to give encryption a try.

Are you people telling me I forgot a password I made 3 days ago???"

We had no reason to question you when you said that you, not your son, enabled encryption.

The particular individual who entered the password is irrelevant since your initial assertion was based the idea that no password or that a password was assigned either by Apple or by iTunes which proved to be false. Either way, it appears to have operated as designed.

As others have said it might be your original iTunes password. I as well tried my current password and even my iPhone password and those did not work but once I typed in my original password BOOM I made it in! I would try using passwords that you have in your head for other accounts for some reason it may be that!

Hey! I had EXACTLY the same problem and I solved it very quickly. Try to type the password you use everytime you need to authorize Apple to install something in your mac. Be aware that it may be different from your icloud/appstore password as well as your locking phone password. It worked that way for me after a few wrong trials.

I just gotten my 7 plus. I tried my iTunes I'd but to no avail. I read the advice from the posting and began typing all differe passwords. In the end, I realise that it is not my current gmail password, but my previous one. Hope it is the same for you. Wishing you all the luck😊

peachseason wrote:

I followed the advice posted. It is not my last email password, not my first, but my previuos.

It will always be whatever password you entered when you were prompted, the first time you made an encrypted backup.

Here is the CLUE: It is the password you entered when prompted for a backup password, the first time you backed up with Encrypt checked. You entered it twice.

If you go back to the previous page in this thread I have cataloged a list of the passwords that different users have discovered to be the correct one.

youngtoeter wrote:

yes this is true . you gotta use some sort of super old password you always use . try with or without capitals. i dont know but it works

Exactly. You must use the password that YOU ENTERED TWICE the first time you made an encrypted backup. It will never change, unless you explicitly click the "Change Password," enter the old password, then the new one.

Unfortunately if you don't have the backup password on itunes you can't do the back up. This is what I was told by my phone company. But you can always try calling apple support and see how they can help you

Your phone company is clueless. Yes, you can create a backup without the password. What you can't do is RESTORE the backup to your device or a new device without the backup password. But you can still back up and restore an iCloud backup instead of an iTunes backup.

That link still says:

There is no way to recover your information or turn off Encrypt Backup if you lose or forget the password.

However, the further instructions give a way to bypass it that requires "reset all settings." This is a partially destructive step, but I guess for some people it may be worth it.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

However, the further instructions give a way to bypass it that requires "reset all settings." This is a partially destructive step, but I guess for some people it may be worth it.

It's easier than restoring the phone.

Hello, so this problem also happened to me. But firstly, I want to say my horrific situation. I had an iPhone 6 Plus and upgraded to iPhone 8 Plus. I backed up my 6 to my PC. After buying the 8 I went to my laptop opened iTunes and hit Restore Backup. Then suddenly it was asking for a password for the backup. I was surprised. I didn’t make any password for the backup. After googling some answers it appears that so many people are having the same problem. Apple will going to put password on your backup for the “safety” of your files. Apple created a password made from your old iPhone password combinations. So my suggestion is to try to remember your pasts passwords and list them down and cross out whatever didn’t work until you hit the right one. After I got the right password combination then it says that my backup was corrupted. I was losing my sh*t. Then after googling this issue again it appears that you should update your new phone that you’re going to restore to the newst iOS version. Then after that, restore should start. Hope this helps. Apple seriously need to resolve these issues.

Jp_mismo wrote:

Apple will going to put password on your backup for the “safety” of your files. Apple created a password made from your old iPhone password combinations.

Apple did not turn the encrypted back up feature on. Apple did not create the passcode. The user has to explicitly check the encrypted back up box. Then, the user has to type in a password not once but twice.

My password turned out to be my laptop admin password. I remember turning encryption on but not setting a password (I am very good about storing passwords in my app), so I must have thought it was asking FOR my password, not to SET a password. I recommend, as others have, to try various itunes, iphone, and laptop passwords until you find it.