Encrypted iPhone Backup isn't accepting the right password

See Disable iOS backup encryption - Apple Community. In particular:

If you have forgotten the password, or were not aware that encryption had been enabled, consider that it might be any computer, Apple ID, Wi-Fi password or device PIN that you've used in the past, working from the assumption that you might have reused a common password that you were using when encryption was first activated. See About encrypted backups on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support for details.

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in my experience, if you dont know the password, you are in trouble. i would use worse language but knowing how precious apple are they would block me. im actually furious about this - terrible design.

Once you set encrypted backups in itunes, that feature is passed onto the iphone, and the "all settings" become encrypted.

In my case, i had to reset all settings, backup my old phone again, and restore to a new phone, with all settings having being reset.

Note that "erase all settings" doesn't get rid of data, files or apps, but there are some settings that are lost. its not the end of the world, but it is really awful design.

I can only presume at some point the value stored on the device has been corrupted somehow, changing the value subsequently used to encode and decode the backup. I would recommend backing up to iCloud and then using the steps to remove backup encryption being added to future backups.

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I really don't know of any reliable software that can do this. You might try https://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/ since it claims that the free version can pull four files at a time out of an encrypted backup. Not sure if that is with or without the correct key, but you can at least try for no risk.

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iamspeedkachow wrote:

A while ago i tried to backup my iphone to my mac but couldn’t do it because my mac didn’t have enough space but i had already set a password, then i backed it up to my windows computer through itunes and set the same password.

Saturday i backed my iphone to the same windows pc and tried to restore from backup and it said wrong password so i backed it up to someone else’s mac and even though i didn’t set a password this time it was encrypted, i clicked restore from backup and entered the old password, it accepted the password started the process but my phone got erased and went to the hello screen.

I learned that it accepts any password but if the password is wrong it just erases the phone without a warning.

I lost a lot of important data and i’ve been trying a lot of ways to find the right password.

I looked to the keychain access and found nothing, i looked to the keychain access at my mac and found the same password ive been trying, i tried every password i have ever used.

So what is the password now?

I didn't set it, the other mac's owner never backed up an iPhone with encryption before so he didn't set it, it isn't in the keychain access , where did this password come from?

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good question—

Never had such an issue.

it seems confounding this backup being passed around on so many machines. I would not remain optimistic here.

iPhone backups can be found here from the Finder>Go>Go To Folder, copy & paste:

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

or the GUI

further—

Call Customer Support (800) MY–APPLE (800–692–7753)

or on line https://getsupport.apple.com/

or call AppleCare Support at 1-800-APLCARE (800-275-2273)

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See a list of Apple phone numbers around the world.

Contact Apple Support - Apple Support 

Not as far as I know.

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