iTunes Forgot Password - How to Restore iTunes Backup Password for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

"Hello, Due to long time no login iTunes backup, I forgot the iTunes backup password and can't remember it at all, I tried all possible password but still failed. Is there any way that can unlock iTunes backup ? OR Recover my iTunes backup password?"It is  especially disastrous and painful if you cannot remember iTunes backup password. Because you'll have no opportunity to view and export iTunes backup files anymore unless you restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod to factory settings. The bad news is that all data will be erased. Thankfully, this tutorial has offered 3 options for iOS users to restore iPhone backup password.

Option One: Try Possible Passwords that You Remember 
Try to think of which kind of password that you may set as your iTunes backup password?

1. iTunes Store password
2. 4 or 6 digit unlock code for your device
3. Default password: 0000
4. Windows Administrator password

But this option is not promised to find specific password. So one more choice is to find a professional software to decrypt iTunes password.

Option Two: Recover iTunes Password with iPhone Backup Unlocker 
As a professional iTunes password recovery tool, Jihosoft iTunes Backup Unlocker can help you find lost iPhone backup password without any data loss. Lots of Apple community users are have a high opinion of it.
Note: Free trial of this program only recovers the first 3 characters that encrypted iTunes backup password contains. 

      

Preparation: Before you can find your iTunes password, you need to go to official site of Jihosoft or click download icon above to install this software on your computer. 

Attack Type Selection: This software supplies 3 attack types: Brute-force Attack, Brute-force. Please select one in your favor. 

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How to Retrieve iTunes Password from iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

It is common practice for iOS users to backup data with iTunes. To keep privacy, they are used to encrypting iTunes backup. However, it will be troublesome to forget iTunes password, especially not being able to sign into iTunes account to download & restore iTunes backup data for your iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 6S Plus, 6S, 6 Plus, 6; iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPad mini 4; iPod Touch 5, 6...Calm down, this tutorial will offer 2 common ways for you guys to retrieve iTunes password.

Method 1: Recover iTunes Password with Your Memory
Go to /Applications/Utilities/ to find Keeychain Access and open it up. Enter "iPhone backup" in the search box from the upper right corner and you'll fins application password of your iPhone backup. Double click this result and a dialog box will automatically pop up showing details of this application. Click "Show Password" and administration password, this iTunes backup password will be revealed.

Method 2: Retrieve iTunes Password with iTunes Password Retrieval 
If the way above is not workable, you can search online to find professional tool to decrypt iTunes password. And i happen to know one program which will be helpful for you. Jihosoft iTunes Backup Unlocker is developed to recover lost or forgotten password of encrypted iTunes backup for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

        

Hit the download icon of Win/Mac version of iTunes Backup Unlocker, open it up and select one encrypted iTunes backup file, when you click Next, you'll find 3 password attack types. Select one attack type and click "Start" to scan forgotten password. 

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Forgot iTunes Password - How to Decrypt iPhone Backup with Password

"Can I unlock an iPhone backup if I forgot the password?"

Generally, to protect backup files of iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, such as contacts, sms messages, whatsApp messages, photos, videos, notes and more data, iOS users are used to using password to encrypt iTunes. After all, it is the most convenient and fastest way to save important information. As time goes by, you may forget this complicated password. You are not able to restore any data from iTunes if you enter wrong password, which means that you are going to lose all the files forever if you cannot unlock iTunes. This post is going to supply you with 2 solutions to help you recover iPhone backup  password. 

Solution 1: Try All the Possible Password that You Have Ever Used. 

When you get into trouble as mentioned above, what will you firstly have in mind? Are you going to restore your iPhone to factory resetting ? You can decrypt iTunes backup when you set iPhone as a new one, but the ending is that you will get all data erased and cannot be restored anymore. Thus the  most used method to recover iTunes password is to try all the possible passwords that you have in mind. 

Solution 2: Decrypt iTunes Backup using iTunes Backup Password Recovery 

Compared with the 1st solution, the successful password recovery rate of solution 2 is higher. Jihosoft iTunes Backup Unlocker is dedicated to recover lost iTunes backup password for iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, 6 Plus, 6, SE, 5S; iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Air... Besides, It provides three password attack types: Brute-force Attack, Brute-force with Mask Attack and Dictionary Attack to ensure 100% decryption.

         

Step 1: Go to the official site of Jihosoft to download this iPhone Backup Unlocker and launch it on you PC. 

Step 2: When you synced your iPhone with iTunes before, you'll find this iTunes backup file displayed on its interface. select it and click "Next".

Step 3: Choose one password attack type and tap on "Start" to scan possible passwords. 

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IOS 10 Backup Unlocker - Unlock Encrypted iOS10 Backup Password

Encryption is one way to guard privacy. iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users users to set password of iTunes backup files to protect privacy. However, many users may feel awkward if they forgot iTunes password, why? It means that they have no way to backup iPhone with iTunes or restore iPhone data from iTunes backup until they have access to iTunes backup files again. And in that case, you can erase iTunes backup password from iPhone reset or recover iTunes password to gain access to iTunes

Part 1: Erase iTunes Backup Password from iPhone Reset

As we know that the only way to erase iTunes backup password is to restore iPhone to factory settings. In this way, you can remove everything on your iPhone, including iTunes backup password. It’s easy to factory reset & erase all content and setting on iPhone: Go to “Settings” on iPhone → General → Reset → Erase All Contents and Settings.

Note: You’d better backup your iPhone with iCloud before the resetting process, or all of your iPhone data will be erased.

Some users may hesitate to use the way above as they think it complicated and time-consuming to backup iPhone with iCloud and reset iPhone. Then an iPhone backup unlocker can come in handy for recovering iPhone backup password.

Part 2: Decrypt iPhone Password with iPhone Backup Unlocker

Jihosoft iTunes Backup Unlocker is such a tool to decrypt iTunes backup password and regain access to iTunes backup files for iPhone7, 7Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, 6, iPad Pro, Air 2, Air, iPod Touch 6, 5, etc. And the newest version of iTunes Backup Unlocker Win/Mac now even supports to decrypt iOS10 backup password. 

  

Step 1: After you download this software on your computer, launch it and select an password-protected iTunes backup file to recover.

Step 2: There are 3 attack types to unlock password: Brute-force Attack, Brute-force with Mask Attack, and Dictionary Attack; the more numbers or symbols your remember, the more time you’ll save to recover iTunes password.

Step 3: Select one attack form and click “Next” to find iPhone backup password.