How to Find iTunes Backup Password from Mac/Windows Computer

“I have backed up my iPhone data into the iTunes on my computer and encrypted it with a password months ago. Now, when I try to restore data from the backup to my iPhone 7, iTunes asks me to enter the password. But when I enter the password, iTunes says it was incorrect. I can't remember my iPhone iTunes backup password this time. How can I find my password from iTunes or my iPhone? I don't want to reset the password by removing all settings on my phone and lose the backup. I need the backup.”

How to unlock encrypted iTunes backup file without resetting all settings to factory settings? Where can you find your iTunes backup password? If you have forgotten your password for iTunes backup, there are only two ways for you to find the backup password.

Trick 1: Find Your iTunes Backup Password from the Mac OS Keychain.

Trick 2: Find iTunes Backup Password with Professional Password Finder on Windows Computer.

If you have check the option of “Remember password in keychain” when you created your password, it is easy to find out the password of your encrypted iTunes backup file. If you haven’t checked this option while you create the password, you have to use a professional iTunes backup password finder to help find your lost password. Now, keep reading the detailed procedures given bellow.

Trick 1: Find Your iTunes Backup Password from the Mac OS Keychain.

Before using this trick, let’s review the process of creating a password for iTunes backup.

On the screen of creating password, there is an option of “Remember this password in my keychain”. If you have previously checked that option and you use a Mac and configured the iTunes backup password on that Mac, your computer may have kept a record of the password in its keychain. So, the first thing you should try is loading the “Keychain Access” app that comes with every Mac computer and finding your backup password.

Step 1: Launch Keychain Access by opening Spotlight with Cmd + (space), typing "Keychain Access" in the box and then hit Enter key.

Step 2: On the Keychain Access window, click "Passwords" from the left category sidebar.

Step 3: Now, type "backup" into the search box at the top-right of the window.

Step 4: Saved password entries will be listed in search result. From results, find “iOS Backup” or “iPhone Backup” and double-click it to view the saved password entry.

Step 5: A dialog pops up, check the "Show password" box and the password will be displayed.

Unfortunately, there's no simple equivalent of doing this for Windows users. So, if you created the backup on a Windows computer, this trick will be useless, but you can use Trick 2. Please keep reading.

 

Find iTunes Backup Password with Professional Password Finder on Windows Computer.

If you want to find your forgotten iTunes backup password from Windows computer, you can use iTunes Password Rescuer to easily find your password without losing data. This is a professional iTunes backup password finder which can help find out lost password for any iTunes backup which created on any Windows computer. This is currently the fastest iTunes password recovery tool on the internet. Key features of iTunes Password Rescuer.

  • Recover lost password for iPhone 12, 11 Pro/Pro Max, XR, XS, XS Max, X, 7/7 plus, 6/6 plus, 5s/5c/5, 4s/4 backup.
  • Recover forgotten password for iPad 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, iPad Pro, iPad Mini/Air1/Air2/Air3 Retina and iPod touch backup.
  • Support all versions of iTunes backup.
  • Support all versions of Windows Operating System.
  • Without affecting your iPhone, iPad, iPod and computer.
  • High recovery speed, support multi-core CPU and GPU.
  • High Password Recovery Speed
  • Recover iTunes backup password in high speed, regardless size of your backup file.
  • Support multi-core CPUs to accelerate password recovery process significantly. The more CPU cores you have, the faster recovery speed you will enjoy.
  • Program Priority is available to allocate more CPU power to iTunes Password Rescuer and speed up the recovery speed efficiently.
  • Support NVIDIA-GPU to accelerate password recovery process efficiently.
  • iTunes Password Rescuer provides four powerful attacking types which can greatly reduce the password recovery time.

The following tutorial is about how to use iTunes Password Rescuer to easily find iPhone iTunes backup password from Windows computer.

Step 1: Install iTunes Password Rescuer on your Windows computer and register it with a license code. (Please click “Buy Now” or “Purchase” button to buy the license code and your receive it in senonds. If you want to have a try, click "Download" button to get the trial version for free.)

Step 2: After installed and registered the software, click “Open” button in the menu bar.

Step 3: On the Open dialog, select your iTunes backup file and then click “OK” button. Note: Commonly, iTunes Password Rescuer will automatically load the encrypted backup files from your computer. If your backup file doesn’t appear in list, please click “Add File” and select the backup file from the following directory: C:\Users\%userprofiles%\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

Step 4: Choose an appropriate attacking type and set the character range.

If you still remember the length or character type of your password, an appropriate attacking type can greatly reduce the password recovery time. iTunes Password Rescuer provides four powerful attacking types for you to find lost iTunes backup password in the shortest time.

1. Brute-force Mode: iTunes Password Rescuer will try all possible character's combinations in specified Range. For example:

1) If you remember character type of your password, select the symbol type in “Range” option.

2) If you remember the length of your password, click Length tab. Enter Minimal password length and Maximal password length. The software will start from the minimal length.

2. Mask mode: If you remember some characters of the password, please choose the Mask mode. On Range tab, type the character to replace the digit you remember. For example, if you remember that the password has three digits and the first digit is a lowercase letter “a”, you can type “a??” in the Mask box. The software will only search the last two digits.

3. Dictionary mode. This mode will prefer to try all passwords pre-created in the built-in dictionary to find out which is the correct password for your iTunes backup. You can choose the default dictionary file provided by the software. You also can choose another dictionary which created by yourself. Just copy all commonly-used passwords, your ever-used passwords and some special characters like phone number, birthday in a notepad file. If you want to use Dictionary mode. On the Dictionary tab, click Select Dictionary button to import your dictionary file.

4. Smart mode. If you don’t know anything about the forgotten password, you can choose the Smart mode to automatically find out the password. It will try all possible character's combinations including all printable characters to find the password smartly and automatically.

Step 5: When finish configuration, click “Start” button to find iTunes backup password and wait for the process. Note that the software will automatically save password recovery process when you suddenly shut down it. So you can resume the process in next time you open it.

Step 6: When the software find out the correct password for your iTunes backup file, it will be shown to you. Write down or copy it. You will now be able to unlock the backup file.

 

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