#What is the iphone backup password how to
#What is the iphone backup password mac osx

#What is the iphone backup password how to

If anyone tried to tell you how to get past the passcode on an encrypted iPhone backup, our hosts would delete the post or this entire thread before you ever saw the answer. I am having the same iPhone backup password not working problem, I have never set up a password for a back up and I remember all my passwords and yet now that I went to restore my phone it is asking me for one. I have never used 1234 for anything ever so maybe it’s a security mechanism or just my luck. So it’s impossible that the password to my phone back-up was 'the password' I used for all my social networks. I have terrible memory so for all my social networks I use the same password. I hope this helps anyone with this problem. But first, remove iPhone password encryption listed under iTunes>Preferences>Devices.ĭo you have a company exchange account on your phone? I ask, because encrypting the iPhone backup can be required by the profile installed on your phone. If you cannot remember the password and want to start again, you will have to do a full software restore and when prompted by iTunes to select the backup to restore from, choose Set up as a new device. You do not need to enter the password for your backup each time you back up or sync. If you forget the password you can continue to do backups and use the device however you will not be able to restore the encrypted backup to any device without the password. If you encrypt iPhone backup in iTunes and then forget your password, you will not be able to restore from backup and your data will be unrecoverable. From my observation everything is back exactly how it was. I went to restore it and when asked for the password, I simply put in the password I just set it as and it worked. On the summary page on iTunes, I went down to the back up section and saw the 'Encrypt iPhone backup' part was unchecked, so I checked it and entered a new password. I put in any it could possibly be to no avail. When I had met such problem I had restored my phone to an old point just to see what it was like and when I tried to restore it back to my most recent one it asked for a iTunes backup password. I may have found a solution to this, as it has worked for me already.

#What is the iphone backup password mac osx

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.7 and iTunes 10.2.2. I've already tried the keychain route to no avail. Now however, I have a new phone and cannot restore iPhone backup, as there it prompts me for a password I don't have! I tried all the ones I've used for my iPhone and pretty much every other one of which I can think, all to no avail. Actually, I don't recall ever setting one.