{"id":5375,"date":"2017-11-01T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2023-04-12T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:08:01","slug":"unencrypt-iphone-backup-with-or-without-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/unencrypt-iphone-backup-with-or-without-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unencrypt iPhone Backup with\/without Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/ios\/two-ways-to-restore-iphone-lost-data-from-itunes-backup.html#way1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restore iPhone from encrypted iTunes backup<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/ios\/itunes-data-recovery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extract data from iTunes backup<\/a>, the backup should be unencrypted at first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to unencrypt iPhone backup with password?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have iTunes backup password, just type it when asked to unlock iTunes backup in iTunes or in other cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unencrypt-iphone-backup-with-password.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unencrypt-iphone-backup-with-password.png\" alt=\"unencrypt iphone backup with password\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unencrypt-iphone-backup-with-password.png 391w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unencrypt-iphone-backup-with-password-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to unencrypt iPhone backup without password?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know, how to unencrypt iPhone backup? The powerful <strong>iSunshare iTunes password recovery tool<\/strong> will help you to do even without iTunes and password.<\/p>\n<h2>Guide to unencrypt iPhone backup without password<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#step1\">Step 1: Find iTunes Password Genius to install and run<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#step2\">Step 2: Recover iPhone iTunes backup password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#step3\">Step 3: Unencrypt iPhone backup with recovered password<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"step1\">Step 1: Find iTunes Password Genius to install and run on Windows or Mac<\/h3>\n<p>1. Make sure if iPhone encrypted backup is saved on an accessible Windows or Mac computer.<\/p>\n<p>2. Get the appropriate version of iTunes Password Genius to run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/find-itunes-password-genius-to-run.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5379 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/find-itunes-password-genius-to-run.png\" alt=\"find itunes password genius to run on Windows or Mac\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/find-itunes-password-genius-to-run.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/find-itunes-password-genius-to-run-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/itunes-password-genius.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes Password Genius<\/a> for Windows could run on Windows computer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/itunes-password-genius-for-mac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes Password Genius for Mac<\/a> are designed to recover iTunes backup password on Mac. But they work in the same way. So we can just take iTunes Password Genius for Mac to see how it works. Please find its full version and install it on Mac.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"step2\">Step 2: Recover iPhone iTunes backup password<\/h3>\n<p>1. When iTunes Password Genius for Mac runs on Mac, open a dialog to select iTunes backup file by clicking <strong>Open File<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>2. Continue clicking <strong>Add File<\/strong> button, and you can browse all the iTunes backup files on your Mac.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/add-encrypted-iphone-itunes-backup-file.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/add-encrypted-iphone-itunes-backup-file.png\" alt=\"add encrypted iphone itunes backup file\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/add-encrypted-iphone-itunes-backup-file.png 527w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/add-encrypted-iphone-itunes-backup-file-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Choose the encrypted iPhone backup, tap on <strong>Open<\/strong> and <strong>OK<\/strong> button to add it to iTunes password recovery tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/locate-and-choose-iphone-backup-on-mac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/locate-and-choose-iphone-backup-on-mac.png\" alt=\"locate and choose iTunes backup for iPhone on Mac\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/locate-and-choose-iphone-backup-on-mac.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/locate-and-choose-iphone-backup-on-mac-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t ever changed iPhone backup location on Mac, usually iTunes backup is saved on this location <strong>~\/Library\/Application Support\/MobileSync\/Backup\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4. The most important part in the process of iTunes backup password recovery is to check one password attack type from list and configure it in details. And remember to allow as many CPUs as possible to participate in iTunes backup password recovery. All these settings will improve your password recovery speed and save your time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/improve-iphone-backup-password-recovery-speed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/improve-iphone-backup-password-recovery-speed.png\" alt=\"improve iPhone backup password recovery speed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/improve-iphone-backup-password-recovery-speed.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/improve-iphone-backup-password-recovery-speed-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. The last but not the least, click on <strong>Start<\/strong> button to recover iPhone backup password.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/recover-iphone-backup-password-on-mac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/recover-iphone-backup-password-on-mac.png\" alt=\"recover iPhone backup password on Mac\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/recover-iphone-backup-password-on-mac.png 470w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/recover-iphone-backup-password-on-mac-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"step3\">Step 3: Unencrypt iPhone backup with recovered password<\/h3>\n<p>Copy the recovered iPhone backup password and save it in a safe place. When you need to unencrypt iPhone backup with it, just copy and paste it in pop-up dialog when you are asked. The whole process doesn&#8217;t require your iPhone, so you can decrypt iPhone backup without iPhone in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Decrypting iPhone backup is so important that you can&#8217;t restore iPhone lost or deleted data from backup if\u00a0you have not unencrypted iPhone\u00a0backup. Especially you would fail to extract data from previous iPhone backup and transfer the data to your new iPhone X\/8\/8 Plus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/itunes-password\/three-ways-to-remove-iphone-itunes-backup-password.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Ways to Remove iPhone iTunes Backup Password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/itunes-password\/turn-off-backup-encryption-in-itunes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turn off\/Disable Backup Encryption in iTunes with\/without Password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/ios\/itunes-data-recovery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simple Way to Extract Data from iTunes Backup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter you want to restore iPhone from encrypted iTunes backup, or extract data from iTunes backup, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ios-devices","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}