asking for password to unlock iphone backup

In other words, you are setting up an anonymous email account.

Setup a Yahoo or Hotmail account with all fake information (Name, address, b-day, etc.) with a “handle/name/email address” that has nothing to do with you but you can recall. Let me add a suggestion that I have come up with for storing passwords where you can access them from anywhere. Good luck to all if you have to go through this because this has not been a fun few days.

I still have no idea what made iTunes go back to an ancient password.

I have never checked the box in iTunes to encrypt the iPhone backup.

When I have performed previous upgrades to the iOS I have never been prompted for a password when restoring the data.

Somehow it popped into my head and after trying hundreds (no I'm not kidding) of passwords, success!

I had changed that password soon after creating it and have since changed it several times. For some reason it was the original iTunes password I had setup when I first got the iPhone 4 and iTunes 17 months ago. Well I finally got through with the correct password.

Asking for password to unlock iphone backup