password to unlock your iphone backup file

Horse poop!

We all have other Apple IDs of one sort or another.

There is zero reason why one or 2 of those couldn't be utilized to reset/reveal the password.

Or even security questions?

Not like they aren't used all over the world.

This is very poor customer service on Apple's part

I still love that the same old people still are defending this garbage. This is absolutely the worst customer service and process from any tech company I have ever dealt with, and this is coming from a guy that grew up with DOS and the first Windows. There is no rhyme or reason to the password that it is asking for. Literally enter in any password that you ever used with an apple product and hope for the best. Anyone else with high ratings coming in telling you otherwise is full of it. Again, I had to use my first password that I used for my iPod Classic 4th Gen from 2005 for the to unlock the backup of my 2015 iPhone 6. Moreover, this never happened with my iPhone 4 or 5s. I guarantee all of you that I have not used that password in over 8 years. Anyone that is trying to justify that we intentionally set the password for am encrypted backup with these old and obsolete passwords are just apologists for apple.

How does this make any sense? People are struggling to unlock a recent backup with their current password because their current and typical password that is tied to their apple id DOES NOT WORK. This has nothing to do with how easy a password is or "easily switched out" it is (which also makes no sense). The point is that the passwords we use with our apple id do not unlock the backups and that we never used another password for the backup. Why are you being this dense?

That is the entire point of this help thread. No one selected to "encrypt their backup". NO ONE. Did you read any of the original posts within this thread? Of course you didn't.This is why so many people are asking for help to figure out what password to use. You cannot continue to copy and paste screen shots without reading the context of the questions you are trying to "solve". You are just farming for apple help points. It's sad and doing the community a disservice.

You are a broken record aren't you? Or a bot. Regardless, you aren't helpful and the 100's of other people that have the same issues indicate you have no idea what you are talking about. Keep farming those points guy. I'm sure they help you sleep at night.

Yes, your posts are so on topic and relevant that you've helped no one. Impressive.

For anyone else reading, most likely the password you need is the original iTunes password you used to create your iTunes account. For some of you it is extremely new; for others like me it is over 10 years old. Regardless of whether you chose to encrypt or not (you didn't), don't let the negative people bring you down. iTunes account password is what you need.

Dawson14 wrote:

For anyone else reading, most likely the password you need is the original iTunes password you used to create your iTunes account. For some of you it is extremely new; for others like me it is over 10 years old. Regardless of whether you chose to encrypt or not (you didn't), don't let the negative people bring you down. iTunes account password is what you need.

There is no "most likely" about it. The encrypted back up passcode has no relationship with any other passcode you've ever had unless you compromise security by using the same passcode over and over for different things.

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???

That's BS, I never made a password that I know of.

The only possibility is that I inadvertently entered a blank password, which itunes doesn't let you enter.

How am I supposed to enter a password it won't let me enter?

T19BF wrote:

3 days ago I decided to give encryption a try.

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

That's BS, I never made a password that I know of.

Yes. You forgot the password. You had to since you can't "give encryption a try" without setting a password. You did set a password. If you hadn't, you could not have "tried encryption".

No, you and like two other people don't. Everyone else that has posted here believes this person including me. You guys keep arrogantly regurgitating the same canned replies. When its 3 vs 100+, it's time to realize that maybe something else is going on. I'm not sure your ego's will allow that to happen though.

Apparently, logical thought is a foreign concept to you.

You turned on encryption. A password is required. You had to set one. The fact that you now insist you did not is proof that you don't remember it.

Your refusal to accept this will not alter reality in any way.

We are telling you that WE NEVER SET ENCRYPTION. EVER. I'm not sure what is so hard to understand? I never encrypted my backup. I have been backing up apple products for almost 10 years. Not once did I ever have to put in a encrypted password until I tried to restore a backup I made to a new iPhone 7 from a iPhone 6 five minutes earlier. And guess what? Even if I did accidentally encrypt that backup for the 6, I would have never used that password, because I haven't used it in 8 years. There has to be a glitch to where it encrypts a backup and picks your original itunes account password. That is what people, including me, are saying we had to use to unlock the backup. Yet you guys have your fingers in your ears screaming "we are right, you are stupid, blah blah blah". You guys are acting like we don't remember what we did literally minutes before. News flash. We do.

So, in your exalted opinion, itunes never screws up.

In fact, no software in history has ever screwed up.

Windows has been, is and always will be perfect.

makes one wonder why people are paid 6 figures and up to fix faulty programs if they never screw up.

I guess your iphone has never, ever just up and rebooted itself ever, because it also is perfect.

Your perception of reality is truly faulty

I never contradicted myself. I said I never intentionally entered a password. I did say I may have entered a blank one.

Others are saying they never selected encryption and never entered a password.

Even though you weren't there, never saw their screens, you're calling them liars for all intents and purposes, insisting that itunes could never glitch.

EVERYTHING glitches

T19BF wrote:

Why do you believe so firmly that the dialog must always appear.

Many years of experience training people how to use technology makes me believe that firmly.

A very large number of end user problems with technology are because people didn't pay attention to what was on the screen. I know I've done it enough times myself.