Timeline for How to find out when and where backup recovery password was set for iPhone backups?
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| Sep 24, 2020 at 16:14 | comment | added | Redbeard | @bmike then I am pretty much out of luck here. I guess I need some sort of supercomputer in the future to retrieve my data :/ | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 21:37 | comment | added | bmike♦ | @Redbeard there’s not going to be a good audit to tell if something was deleted from the keychain or wasn’t saved in the first place. Only if it’s there do we have breadcrumbs.... | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 21:30 | comment | added | Redbeard | I had already checked all solutions on the internet and searched through my keychain. I don't remember ever setting a password. Never did a real backup before, this was my first. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 21:29 | comment | added | Redbeard | @grg I have neither mentioned in my keychain :/ | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 20:00 | comment | added | grg♦ | @Tetsujin Thanks added, I didn’t notice I have both and that one is my more recent password, so they probably changed it at some point | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 20:00 | history | edited | grg♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 19:59 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Mine is listed actually as "iOS Backup" [on Mojave set probably a decade ago] | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 19:26 | comment | added | Kelly | Since the backup password "carries forward" onto new phones when you restore backups to them, it's worth checking the Keychain Access app, even if iTunes/Finder doesn't try to autocomplete the password for you. There may be an older device's same backup password stored there. I also have a list of suggestions for trying to remember the password here: deciphertools.com/support/knowledge-base/… | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 19:15 | history | answered | grg♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |