Using iCould to bypass encrypted backups

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Mike12006 Author

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Using iCould to bypass encrypted backups

Well, my iPhone backup is encrypted and I have tried and tried but there is no guessing which password it can possibly be. I have all the information still on my phone so I was wondering: If I create a backup to iCloud, delete all of my current itunes backups and restore the phone to original, will I then be able to restore to the iCloud backup, or will I still be blocked with the encryption password? I could care less about everything except for text messages.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Feb 2, 2013 9:53 AM

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Feb 2, 2013 9:59 AM in response to Mike12006

If all the information is still on your iPhone, why are you trying to restore from a backup?

What exactly are you trying to do?

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Mike12006 Author

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Feb 2, 2013 10:38 AM in response to Julian Wright

Julian,

I know that in the event that I will need to restore from a backup, I will end up losing all the information that I currently have because of the encryption. So I am really hoping to prevent that from happening.

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Feb 2, 2013 11:26 AM in response to Mike12006

Ah, well just delete the current backup and create a new one to replace it without encryption turned on.

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Mike12006 Author

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Feb 2, 2013 12:34 PM in response to Julian Wright

I wish that it was as simple as that. The encryption carries over to the iPhone's embedded keychain. So deleting the backups does little to remove the encryption from the phone.

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NASATimp

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Feb 24, 2014 3:08 PM in response to Mike12006

Anyone know the answer to this? I have essentially the same question here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5936757

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Mar 2, 2014 4:53 AM in response to NASATimp

I had the same problem and was able to solve it. Here is my problem and solution https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5943105

Essentially even though your phone will not create any new un encryped backups (as the encryption password settings carry over to the phone not to itunes), I got a second ios device (an ipod touch) and put that on the same itunes and icloud account, then it pulled everything from the cloud onto it , wiped my phone clean, then synced to the cloud again and everything went back onto the phone. See all the details in my forum thread.

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