password to unlock your iphone backup file

Actually, this was correct, not you.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205220

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.

The fact that Encrypt Backup has been checked, and the hashed backup password/encryption key, are stored in iOS. So any time you create a backup of the phone on any computer that backup will be encrypted. Whether you deleted the encrypted backup or not from any computer that you had backed up to. When the encrypted backup was made the very first time Save in Keychain must have been checked also, which is what saved you.

Apple in their genius has NEVER CREATED ANY PASSWORD. YOU, THE USER, created any password that unlocked the backup, whether you remember doing it or not. Stop trying to shift the blame for your forgetfulness. If you know anything at all about the way passwords work, Apple could not possibly reuse a password, because they do not know what your formerly used passwords were. What IS true is that the first time you created an encrypted backup you were forced to enter a password - twice. As it may have been 3 years ago, it's easy forget doing it. And that backup password never changed, unless you deliberately changed it.

Hi,

Did you manage to resolve the problem with your backup file password?

I am having the same problem and cannot access anything.

Can you help please??

Many Thanks

Having the same problem 😟

Have you found out how to get the password?

I'm also using a new laptop if that helps or anything?

I am having the same problem, any luck?

From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946:

Warning: If you encrypt an iPhone backup in iTunes and then forget your password, you will not be able to restore from backup and your data will be unrecoverable. If you forget the password, you can continue to back up and use the device, however you will not be able to restore the encrypted backup to any device without the password. You do not need to enter the password for your backup each time you back up or sync.

If you cannot remember the password and want to start again, you must perform a full software restore and when iTunes prompts you to select the backup from which to restore, choose set up as a new device.

I never set my phone to have an encrypted back-up, but this morning it became encrypted when I synced my phone and the software updated. I have no way to get into the back-up file. Is there anything else I can do other than set it up as brand new?

My girl friend is having THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM right now. SHE NEVER SET THE ENCRYPTION and she just tried to up date to the new iOS and now all of a sudden she is being asked for a back file password to restore her phone. She is not a happy camper right now...

That was my issue, now I reconnected it and all of a sudden it decided it wants to restore my phone. We shall see if it worked or not... I think it's a glitch with the updated software

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The backup will be encrypted if you choose to encrypt it, or if you install a corporate MS Exchange account on it and the IT administrator requires that the contents of the phone be encrypted. It either case the first time you sync after setting encryption or installing the Exchange email account you will be prompted for a password. So think about what you would have entered if you saw a password prompt.

This is what i did and it worked okay...i upgraded my OS from 4.x to 5.0 and lost all of my back-up as it kept asking for a password that i never set.

Solution: Clicked on "iTunes Store". Click on "Sign In" on the top right...used by old iTunes store user/pass to login and then disconnected / reconnected iPhone cable and the backup started working fine. It didn't ask for password. I realized that the iPhone needs an assurance that this computer is authorized with this iPhone. When i did login using my iTunes account (not apple iClound account)...it worked. Let me know if it did for you as well.

This worked for me, once I had signed out of the itunes store and disconnected the cable from the phone and the computer