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by Abby Dec. 07, 2017 | NO COMMENT

3 Methods to Recover Forgotten Encrypt iPhone Backup Password

Want to restore encrypt iPhone backup but forget the backup password? Here we’ll share you some easy and practical methods to help you recover forgotten iPhone backup password.

Here is a user from Apple Communities asking for help about his iPhone backup password.

How to Recover Encrypt iPhone Backup Password

How to Recover Encrypt iPhone Backup Password

Q: How to recover password for Encrypt iPhone Backup? My phone has broken, when trying to restore from backup, a prompt message to ''Enter your password for you iPhone backup'' is displayed. I'm not manage to pass this step. I have tried to untick the box for the ''Encrypt iPhone backup'' but the same message is being displayed and it seems that I don't remember - it is not the Apple D password or iCloud. I couldn't find any place where I can restore the password. Pls assist. Thanks.

As you can see from above question, this iPhone 7 user can’t restore his iPhone from encrypt backup and can’t uncheck the option of “Encrypt iPhone backup” in iTunes because he forgot encrypt iPhone backup password. Meanwhile, there are lots of users having this question too. Well, what to do if you forgot iPhone backup password? You must want to recover the lost or forgotten iPhone backup password, right? This article sums up 3 useful methods to help you out.

Table of Contents:

Method 1: Try All Possible Passcodes

If you forgot iPhone backup password, to find it out, the direct and simplest method is to try all the possible passwords you can think of. It may be your Apple ID password, iTunes store password, iPhone password, computer administrator password, some special numbers like birthdays or anniversaries, or some common passwords like 123456, asdfgh, 1111, 0000, etc. Also, you can ask your families or friends whether they know your iPhone backup password or not, sometimes, maybe they encrypt your iPhone without informing you.

Method 2: Try Keychain on a Mac Computer

If you’re a Mac user and have the habit of saving password to Keychain, then you’re so lucky that you can easily recover iPhone backup password with Keychain. To do this, you can follow steps:

1. On your Mac, open Application > Utilities > Keychain Access.

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 1

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 1

2. Click on All Items. In the upper right search field enter "iPhone" and then look for a keychain item named iPhone Backup.

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 2

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 2

3. Double-click the iPhone Backup, tick the “Show password” checkbox in the pop up window. Enter keychain password and click Allow.

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 3

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 3

4. Then, you’ll see your iPhone Backup password in the pop up window.

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 4

Recover Forgotten iPhone Backup Password with Keychain - Step 4

Method 3: Using iPhone Backup Unlocker

If above 2 methods can’t help you fix “forgot Phone backup password”, you can use iPhone backup unlocker to crack and retrieve iPhone backup password.

How can they make it? To recover forgotten iPhone backup password, the only way is to check all the combinations one by one. But it’s impossible for you to manually check all combinations because a password may have tens of thousands of combinations and even more. Especially for a long and complicated password contains uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, special symbols, space and so on. In this case, you need professional iPhone backup unlocker, which can check thousands of passwords per second. So, it makes it possible to check all the password combinations till recover the right one for you.

There are many iPhone backup unlocker in the market you can choose from, they will offer several attack types, like Brute-force attack (for completely know nothing about the password), Mask attack (for still remember part of the password), Dictionary attack(for having a list of possible password in a dictionary), Smart attack (for all possible character combinations).

They’re risk-free and without any damage to your device & backup data. With the one you selected, you can recover the lost iPhone backup password with simple 3 steps:

It will automatically try all possible characters combinations, the recover time depends on the length and complexity of your password, so it may take a very long time if you completely know nothing about the password. If your password is simple, the time will be shorter. Here is an example of recovering a simple password in several minutes.

Password Recovered Successfully with an iPhone Backup Unlocker

Password Recovered Successfully with an iPhone Backup Unlocker

Conclusion

It’s really a good way to protect personal information by encrypting your iPhone backup with iTunes. You can tick the option of “Encrypt backup” in iTunes to set an encryption password for your backups. The password is so important because it is the only key to unlock the encrypted backup, restore from the backup, change the password, turn off Encrypt backup in iTunes etc. Therefore, it’s really like a disaster if you forgot your iPhone backup password. But as a matter of fact, as mentioned before, there are 3 methods still can help you recover it with ease. Hope this guide is helpful for you, if you think so, you can share with your friends and families.

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