

Unfortunately, you are not able to recover the data then: iTunes: About iOS backups iTunes and encrypted backups It seems that you have simply forgotten the password. It is not needed for the regular backups. This password is only entered the first time you create the backup or once you recover data from it. You can verify if you have an encrypted iPhone backup by checking if there is padlock icon next to it in iTunes. Therefore, iTunes prompts you for a password to unlock your encrypted backup file in order to read the contents and restore them onto the new device. It appears that you have secured your iPhone backup using a password. You're the only one who knows the answer!.Enter the passwords - one at a time, crossing out any incorrect one.List down all the possible passwords you use / have used in the past (don't forget if you have used capital letters or numbers or have mixed them up, write down all the possible combinations).Good luck and remember that this is a password that you set up yourself, somewhere inside your head, the correct password lay asleep! I then crossed them out as I tried them out without any luck until I hit gold with my d.o.b. I wrote down a long list of all the possible passwords I tend to use, some of them begin with capital letters. After several unsuccessful attempts, I typed in my date of birth in the form of ddmmyy and it worked! I took my time as I gathered from several posts on the internet that I needed a lot of patience to recall from memory all the possible passwords I might have used a long time ago.
