Recover a Lost Encrypted Backup Password for an iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch

 Open Keychain Access, found in /Applications/Utilities/    Use the Search box in the higher right corner and type “iphone backup”

       

Double click the result, forward one thing is found in Keychain

Check the box next to “Show password” and enter the macintosh administrator password to reveal the lost password related to the encrypted iPhone backup

Make note of the password, then shut out of Keychain Access

Now you'll be able to return to iTunes and use that recovered password to use the encrypted backup through the conventional restoring from a backup method.

If nothing associated with the iOS backup shows up in Keychain Access, you’re quite out of luck in terms of accessing the encrypted backups unless you'll be able to somehow guess their password. The coding is extraordinarily secure (as it ought to be), and therefore can’t be circumvented in any cheap manner that's obtainable to somebody's.

What if there's no password recovery possibility for the encrypted backups?

If the higher than trick doesn’t reveal the backup password, it doesn’t mean the iOS device is suddenly unusable, however it will mean that it should be used either in it’s current state, or reset to manufactory defaults so discovered as a brand new device while not restoring from the encrypted backup, that primarily treats it sort of a current phone. iCloud backups should be obtainable similarly, as accessible through an Apple ID, however that’s additionally not secured since not everybody uses the iCloud backup service.

It’s necessary to indicate that this can be specifically for accessing the password protected encrypted backups made up of iTunes, and this can be not aiming to have any impact on lost passcodes set on the device itself, or the other security measures that were taken to lock down the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, through a 3rd party coding service or otherwise.