Lost Password for Iphone backup
last night i wanted to free up space and backed up my iphone, restored it and then tried "restore from backup" but iTunes was asking me for a password i never had set (and was never prompted to after selecting Encrypt backup etc). Anyways, apple support was no help but i came across another thread of users experiencing the same issue. Im posting this for anyone who has the same issue and needs to restore their phone from backup.
Old thread is: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3091672
these are a list of passwords i read other users trying with success:
1234
0000
apple ID password
iphone password
windows login
windows admin login
microsoft account login
personal email address login (this was my success)
for some reason when my phone was backing up, it never prompted me for a password and appears that iTunes had chosen one for me from saved passwords that i had on my windows computer. Theres some kind of glitch that happened to me and has happened to other users as well. Anyways i hope this post helps someone down the road as the old thread had helped me and was able to get everything i had back on my iphone from backup.
Windows, Windows 6