How To Hack An Iphone Password With Mac
Rubie Mccloughan
It says: Do you want to share the wi-fi password for XXXX with "myname". The wi-fi is at a place I visited once and won't be going back to. I have tried saying yet and tried just closing it down but it pops up every single time I wake up my phone.
In my case, I returned to the area with the hotspot in question and "forgot" it from both my phone and laptop, but the phone *still* asks, every time it wakes up, whether I want to share the password with the laptop. If I enter the password manually on the laptop, or accept the offer to share on the iPhone, it doesn't matter.... the dialog pops up every time.
I got a new iPhone 7 today and am trying to restore it from the backup of my old one (5S) (which I did this morning). I'm logged into iTunes, but when I select "Restore from backup" I'm prompted to "Enter the password to unlock your iPhone backup." This doesn't appear to be my iTunes password, or my iPhone password, so what is it?
I had the same problem! Turns out the password is not the same as your iTunes login. Mine was 'iphone' even though I never set it as that. Try every single password you can think off, even default passwords like 0000 and 1234.
An alternative solution for transferring the content and settings to your new iPhone is to back up your old iPhone using iCloud and then to restore your new iPhone from the iCloud backup. (iCloud backups are encrypted as standard, so will also include your sensitive data).
You won't be able to use previous encrypted backups, but you can back up your current data using iTunes and setting a new backup password.If you have a device with iOS 10 or ealier, you can't reset the password.
It's the same for me and before someone tells me to read all the answers with regards to encrypted passwords and all, I did NOT chose the encrypted data/password option. I also did not fill in any passwords when I did my backup this morning. After changing the battery on my troubled iPhone 6, I tried to restore my backup and was asked to input a password. It is definitely not the iTunes password as I could login to iTunes on my iPad and computer. What other passwords can it be? I tried my iPhone password, sim card code...nothing seems to work.
I reset my Apple ID password using iForgot, wrote the password down, then backed up my iPhone using iTunes. A few minutes later I tried to restore from backup. I was prompted for my iPhone password, entered my Apple ID password, which I had just reset 5 minutes earlier. Password was not recognized. I tried my iPhone 4-digit passcode. Password not recognized. I have a 5C and trying to upgrade to 6Plus. Perhaps 5C isn't supported?
I'm having the SAME problem. I know my iCloud password and have logged in multiple times but can't restore my daughter's phone after backing it up last night. Tried again today and still not working. The back up was NOT encrypted. lishayen, were you able to find a solution?
I recently had the same problem trying to restore a backup which I did not encrypt. In my case, the iOS software automatically imposed an encryption even though I left the encryption box unchecked. I see two time stamps of my backup, each with different passwords and know that I did not create those password back ups. You can try to reveal this password by doing the following:
But what if you have Windows? My husband and I got new phones and I backed the old ones up to iTunes, but never put in a password. When I went to restore, it asked for a password. Somehow, a password I normally use worked for my phone, but can't get my husband's to download. He lost all his pics, songs and contacts
You won't be able to use previous encrypted backups, but you can back up your current data using iTunes and setting a new backup password.If you have a device with iOS 10 or ealier, you can't reset the password. In this case, try the following:
What you have posted looks very helpful BUT for those (like me) with limited understanding on some of the terminology may I kindly ask for further explanation - (my text, comment, question in Green,BOLD and underlined)
(So, in Short : it is possible BUT complicated (i.e NOT a "regular" Apple Help-desk item) - and maybe all data could remain locked for ever, in iTunes, IF the above does not work? - wow, that is seriously crazy!)
I have an iphone X which is my private phone. However, I had some Microsoft Apps on it from a friend who runs a small business, as I help him out on occasion. He required me to have a complex password to prevent loss of data in the event of my phone being handled by a hacker / thief. Now that I no longer help him we have deleted MS Office from my iPhone.
He says that I no longer have access to or am connected to his network and he has cleared the account. I've deleted all his data and therefore I want to change to a less secure and complex password: for example a 6 digit numerical password. However, in Settings / Password & Security / Change Password it says I must use 8 characters, to include a number, an uppercase and a lowercase letter. I've tried to reset to my preferred simpler password but the policy wants me to keep to the complex standard / policy and refuse to 'co-operate'!
Where can I find the policies that are prohibiting me from changing the password to something I select, or how can I find policy and / or overcome my password problem. I am due a new iPhone 14 Pro and want to have an easier to remember password with my new device and not take the same restrictive policy with me when I undertake the change. Apologies but its becoming a real bore now. Thanks in advance for your help.
There is a way to put in a 4 digit 'passcode' but not Apple ID password. In fact, you don't have to have numbers at all to open the phone, you can set up your passcode to be 4 digits, letters, or alphanumeric. Use a passcode with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
The word 'requires' is Apple's but its bold and underlined text is mine for emphasis. The statements are therefore contradictory, either its a recommendation or its a mandatory requirement. from a grammatical understanding they can't both be the right. It does seem that Apple makes this mandatory but I know of many users that use less complex passwords. This is my dilemma.
My spouse has a 4-digit code for her iPhone 8 and, although not on the latest IoS, she is on a fairly recent version. I am shortly to ugrade to the iPhone 14 Pro and she will get my iPhone X. Therefore, a more simple password is desired by her, so I will check out the link provided.
Actually, I don't recall ever setting one. Now however, I have a new phone and cannot restore it from the backup, as there it prompts me for a password I don't have! I tried all the ones I've used for my iPhone and pretty much every other one of which I can think, all to no avail. I need the data in the back up. But I can't get to it. I've already tried the keychain route to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.7 and iTunes 10.2.2. The iPhone is an iPhone 4.
Start guessing. You entered it, twice, possibly years ago. It never changes. You get unlimited guesses. to speed up the process uncheck "Encrypt Backup" and you will be prompted immediately. If you are like most people you reused a password, probably related to your iPhone or your Apple ID. If you have a company MS Exchange account on your phone it might have been a company email or domain password, and on rare occasion, it was actually entered by your system administrator.
Nice list, Lawrence! My god, I can't believe this issue is continuing. ITunes needs to warn people about the implications of entering a password for a backup. If it said "This password will be used automatically without prompting for all future backups. Please record it in a safeplace" then people wouldn't continue making the same mistake they've been making since this thread started 7 years ago.
I then take an absurd amount of care to store that password somewhere safe. I was told in no uncertain terms it is my responsibility. "no way" is pretty clear. I don't blow past dialogs of valuable information and warnings. And if I ever do, and I will admit I have... I take responsibility for my actions.
This is really vague and ambiguous, given the importance and unstated "fine print" around this whole process... And doesn't include any information about the fact that this password will be unchanging forever, will be used for all future backups, is unrecoverable, and will be required into the indefinite future in order to use any backups made from now until eternity. (Again, better option would be to ask the user each time they make a backup if they want to create a new password, or use the existing one.)
Beyond that, it's not even clear that this is CREATING a new and separate password. This is why people are confused - if you don't think about it very closely, it might appear to just be asking you for your login password (since Mac OS sometimes asks for that), or for your Apple ID password (since that's what people are familiar with entering for such things).
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