If you forgot your password, learn what to do.Īfter you confirm your password, your backup will start and immediately overwrite and encrypt your previous backups.
When asked, make a password. Create one that you'll remember or write it down and store it safely, because there's no way to use your backup without this password. From the General tab or the Summary tab, select "Encrypt local backup" under the Backups section. Connect your device to your computer with the included USB cable. Then locate your device on your computer. On a Mac with macOS Mojave 10.14 or earlier, or on a PC, open iTunes. On a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, open the Finder. When I did the backup an hour ago I was not asked for a password. I have tried my iTunes password, my 4 digit unlock code for the iPhone, and several other passwords. I connect to iTunes and iTunes is prompting me for a password to "unlock your iPhone backup file." No I did not encrypt the iPhone backup, nor is it or was it checked in iTunes. I am now going through the setup process and it is at the "Restore from iTunes Backup" step. I backed up my phone (via iTunes 10.5) and downloaded and installed iOS 5. Is that a bug, like the guy from Apple told me by phone? He couldn't help me find a solution. I have the same issue of wsucoug95, but I don't remember an old password, cause I have only used one!!!! This will just be a list of passwords so at least you have a master list somewhere and not stored on your computer(s)/drive(s). You could include hints (that only you could recognize/decipher) that would tell you which accounts/websites went with which passwords. In this email account, create an email to the same account and put your passwords in it but do not include the accounts/websites they are for. In other words, you are setting up an anonymous email account. Setup a Yahoo or Hotmail account with all fake information (Name, address, b-day, etc.) with a “handle/name/email address” that has nothing to do with you but you can recall. Let me add a suggestion that I have come up with for storing passwords where you can access them from anywhere. Good luck to all if you have to go through this because this has not been a fun few days. I still have no idea what made iTunes go back to an ancient password. I have never checked the box in iTunes to encrypt the iPhone backup. When I have performed previous upgrades to the iOS I have never been prompted for a password when restoring the data. 
Somehow it popped into my head and after trying hundreds (no I'm not kidding) of passwords, success! I had changed that password soon after creating it and have since changed it several times. For some reason it was the original iTunes password I had setup when I first got the iPhone 4 and iTunes 17 months ago. Well I finally got through with the correct password.
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