iTunes backup recovery---Recover iOS data when forgot the backup password

Most of Apple users tend to use iTunes to back up their data on iPhone. And to avoid data reveal, some of them will encrypt the backup. The problem is that, if they are not good at remembering password, most likely you have forgotten the password. Then what can you do to restore your backup?

How to remove the password for your iTunes backup?

When you back up your iPhone in iTunes, you will find an option called “Encrypt local backup” in the Backups part. Select this option, it requires you to enter password to lock the backup. After you encrypt the backup, you are required to enter password to unlock the backup. You can change password but you cannot retrieve your password. The only way is to cancel the password. You just need to strike out the option “Encrypt local backup”, and enter correct password. The iTunes will make a new backup without password.

If you forgot the password, you have to give up this encrypted backup, and create a new backup.

Go to Settings>General> Restore, and click “Restore all settings”. System will tell you that restore all the settings will not erase your data on iPhone, confirm the operation. The iPhone will restore settings automatically and reboot by itself.

After settings restore finished, you can connect your iPhone with iTunes to create new backup. Then you can use the new backup without password.

How to restore data from iTunes backup?

As we all know that we can restore data from iTunes backup after data loss, but not everyone know that restore from iTunes backup will replace all the data on iPhone with this backup. This just like you restore your iPhone to a certain time point. If you do not use your latest backup, it means that you will lost some newly added data on iPhone. Therefore, you are not suggested to directly restore from the iTunes backup. The best solution is to use an iPhone data recovery software to restore and extract data from backup.

1.      Install and run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer which stores the backup. The software will detect the iTunes backup if you have recently backed your iPhone to iTunes. If your iPhone backup does not show up on the software, you can click “Browser For iTunes Backup” to select the backup you need to restore. You can see the backup display on the software interface with device name, serial number, backup date and time.

2.      Choose the correct backup you need and click the “SCAN”. The software will scan the iTunes backup for several minutes.

3.      After scan, you will see all kinds of contents display here with the file numbers. Click the file type you need to restore, and preview files on the right side to choose what you want to recover.

4.      Click “Export Selected Records” to extract the data you need. The extracted data will store in a file folder in the recovery path you choose on your computer.