By Jennifer | Last Updated
Forgot your iPhone backup password? It can be a terrible thing indeed, because the iPhone backup only can be used with the correct password. But luckily, it's available to recover the encrypted iPhone backup password. To do this, you can refer to this guide that explains the way to retrieve the forgotten iPhone backup password with 100% success rate.
Step 1: Install iTunes Password Genius for iPhone on Mac or Windows.
Choose the appropriate version based on the platform where you will run the iPhone backup password recovery tool. Please note that the trial version only supports recovering the password with no more than 3 characters.
Step 2: Add encrypted iPhone backup file into password recovery software.
Run the software firstly. When you click Open button, the latest iPhone backup file would be highlighted automatically. Click OK and it would be imported into the iPhone backup password recovery software. Or you can click Add File button to add another backup file.
Step 3: Choose appropriate backup password recovery type.
There are 4 password attack types provided in this tool and they apply to different situations. You can pick the suitable one with the help of this page: Password Recovery Type Settings.
Step 4: Start to recover forgotten encrypted iPhone backup password.
Once Start button is clicked, iTunes Password Genius will begin to recover the forgotten iPhone backup password. When the iTunes Password Recovered window appears, you can see the recovered password in the Password section.
Now, you can restore your iPhone from the iTunes backup with the recovered backup password, just:
Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to the Windows computer. After iTunes automatically detects the iPhone, click Restore Backup option in iTunes and enter the recovered password to unlock iPhone backup. So that you can successfully restore your iPhone from the encrypted iTunes backup.
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