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Encrypt iPhone Backup Data, How to Unlock?

April 18, 2013

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How Often Do You Backup Your Data of iDevice?
Do you usually backup your iOS device’s data? The backup procedure is relatively easy for us? Just need connect our iOS device with computer (Mac or Windows pc), launch iTunes and click? Back Up Now? Then backup will start. At the same time, we may encrypt backup file with a password for data security.

What Will You Do When You Buy A New iDevice?
It is commonplace for us iOS device users that we would like to encrypt our iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Mini backup in iTunes. When we buy a new iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Mini device, we usually sync iOS device with our Windows computer or Mac.

Encrypt iPhone Backup
Of course, if we have selected “Encrypt iPhone Backup” check box, we will have to enter the password. But what if we did not select this checkbox; will iTunes pop up a window waiting for us to input the correct password?

Enter the password to unlock your iPhone backup file
Yes, there will pop up an “Enter Password” window with message “Enter the password to unlock your iPhone backup file.” It is iTunes asking for a password to restore iOS device from backup encryption.

How can we open iPhone encrypted backup?
To open backup, we have to input the same password we set for backups earlier.

If we remember the exact password to backup, we can access iPhone backup luckily! But, at some time, things are not always lucky.

If we forgot backup password, how could we do then?

  • Firstly, we can try to restore iPhone from an unencrypted older backup. Although this will lose part of data on our iPhone, we can open older backup without completely erasing data on iPhone.
  • Secondly, clear your iPhone completely. We can make iPhone into DFU mode (Device Firmware Update mode), wipe and then sync iPhone back. Now, the iPhone will be a whole “new” phone – opened, syncing and backup as new.

    Note: we often use DFU mode to Jailbreak our iOS devices for bypassing the standard restoring process and loading custom firmware on iOS device. Also, we usually opt for DFU mode to downgrade our iPhone from its current higher iOS version to lower.

Well, if we think the files on our iPhone are so important or precious, we should keep them safe. Now, the best choice to unlock iPhone encrypted backup password is “iPhone Backup Unlocker“!

Also, there are large amount of iPhone users forgot password to unlock screen, and the iPhone then will be disabled not allowed to connect to iTunes. To backup the data in device, we can use “Data Recovery for iPhone Software“.

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