HT1766: Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iCloud or iTunes
Learn about Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iCloud or iTunesQ: hi im unable to restore my backup on iphone coz itunes keeps asking for password and i have tired all possible opeions can someone ... hi im unable to restore my backup on iphone coz itunes keeps asking for password and i have tired all possible opeions can someone pls pls pls help more
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Mar 28, 2014 4:21 AM in response to benarayanby wjosten,Tips to remember it here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5162
If the backup you're trying to restore from is encrypted, you will not be able to use that backup if you can't remember the encrypted backup passcode.
If on a Mac, & you elected to save the passcode to your Keychain, you can recover the passcode from your Keychain. Otherwise, your backup data is unrecoverable.
While you can continue to sync/backup, if you can't remember it & want to remove it, you'll have to delete your existing backups, & restore your phone as a new device. Your data will be unrecoverable.
You delete your existing backups here: iTunes>Preferences>Devices.
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Mar 28, 2014 5:32 AM in response to wjostenby benarayan,ok thnx for replying but is there any way i can move my back up from windows to mac to trck the password
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Mar 28, 2014 5:35 AM in response to benarayanby AmishCake,No. Otherwise, what use would it be putting a password on it?
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Mar 28, 2014 5:35 AM in response to benarayanby wjosten,Won't help. The ONLY solution, if you can't remember it, is to delete ALL of your existing backups, & then restore your phone as a NEW device.
Your data is unrecoverable.
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May 6, 2016 10:10 AM in response to wjostenby jimyyz2,The encrypted password used for back-ups worked for me. I had to find it in keychain (iPhone Backup; Kind: application password).
Thanks wj!