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How to Unencrypt iPhone Backup

Updated: By David Rothstein

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Encrypting the iPhone backup could benefit the security of data inside it, which keep others from touching the data. However if some day later, you wanna restore a contact, or some photos, or some important records, you might forget the password due to long time keep the backup alone. Then how to unencrypt the iPhone backup? Don't worry, you will get the solution after reading this article.

Perhaps you are still failed to get the password after trying almost all of the password you could remember, like the passcode for your iPhone, your birthday, the date you created the backup, etc. now I would like to introduce a wonderful helper to you -- Cocosenor iTunes password  tuner, which is user-friendly, 100% clean, absolutely virus free, spyware free. Here you can learn how to use this tool:

Step 1. Click below button to Download and install Cocosenor iTunes Password Tuner in your computer;

free download

Step 2. After the software successfully installed, double click the icon Cocosenor iTunes Password Tuner on your desktop. Click Open, add a backup file. Normally, all backups will be automatically shown, if you can't see the backup you want to decrypt, you can click the button "Add File", then search the backup in your computer.

add backup

Step 3. In this program, you could find that there are four methods of attack, including Brute-force, Mask Attack, Dictionary Attack and Smart Attack, as for the details of these four types of attack, please refer to four password attack methods to open encrypted file.

For instance, I just remember the password consist of small letter, the length is four, so I select "Brute-force" as the type of attack. In the meantime, I make the setting as below:

select all small latin

set password length

Step 4. Click Button "Start". In a while, the password will show up. Then I use it to unencrypt the iPhone backup.

Sidenote: The password recovery time is up to the complexity of the password. In other words, if the password is simple, you can get the password quickly. But if the password is complicated, for example, it consists of small latin, caps latin, digits, special symbols, you might get the password in a bit longer time. Meanwhile, if you have a computer with higher CPU and GPU, it can also speed up the password recovery progress.

Tip: The free trial version of Cocosenor iTunes Password Tuner works when the password is not longer than 3 characters. If its length is over 3, you need to buy a registration code.

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