At the bottom of the dialogue box, click 'Show password' and type in the administrative password for the computer. Double clicked on the most recent entry for 'iPhone Backup'Ĥ. a password should appear in the keychain access window next to the box you checked 'show password' In my case the password that showed up ( iphonelogin) is nothing I have ever set for anything so I wonder if somehow that was put in as a default when I backed up through iTunes Who knows but it worked.

Searching the keychain for a backup password Unfortunately, there's no simple equivalent of doing this for Windows users. Check the 'Show password' box and the password will be displayed. In the search dialog, searched for 'iPhone Backup'ģ. View the saved password entries by double-clicking on results named iOS Backup or iPhone Backup. Opened Applications>Utilities>Keychain Access.appĢ. To retrieve my password, I did the following:ġ. Also, it requires that when you set your password, you clicked the 'Remember this password in my keychain' check box. NOTE: For this to work, you need to be on a Mac. It turns out, I had mistyped it (twice) when I set the password, so none of my known passwords would match.įor this to work the following things need to be true: So, after calling support and spinning around on this for a while, I figured out how to find what the password on the file was. I was very frustrating because if you don't have the password, you can't use the backup file. It prompted me for a password but none of the passwords I typed would work. I recently attempted to restore a phone from my backup file.

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