How to Recover it When Forgot iTunes Backup Password

Encrypting the iTunes backup is of crucial importance for iPhone users, as it can enhance the security of the data in backup, keep the data from unauthorized access. However, some days later, when you want to extract photo, contacts, message, notes from the previous iTunes backup,  you possibly forgot iTunes backup password, as you didn't touch the file for a long time. This is quite normal, as we have to memorize soooo many password. Now we can have a solution to recover the password. 

1. Try every possible password. 

    When you found that you may forget the password for iTunes Backup, don't be like a cat on hot brick. You should calm down, and search every possible password in your memory. For instance, the passcode for your iOS devices, Apple ID password, birthday, lucky number, etc. I have found the top 20 popular passwords, you can take them for a reference.

2. Try a Password Recovery Tool

If you still can't find the password after searching in your memory, you could try a password recovery tool--Cocosenor iTunes Password  Tuner, which is user-friendly, 100% clean, absolutely virus free, spyware free. Follow below steps to know more detail about the tool and learn the usage:

Step 1. Search "Cocosenor iTunes Password Tuner" in google.com, normally the first one is the tool you need, click the link, download the software and install it in your computer. (Or you can download it directly from the product page.)

Step 2. After the software successfully installed, double click the icon Cocosenor iTunes Password Tuner on your desktop. Click Open, you are able to add a backup file. Basically, all backups will be automatically shown, if you can't see the backup you want to recover, please click the button "Add File".

Step 3. When you move the cursor to Type of attack, you can find four types of attack: Brute-force, Mask, Dictionary and Smart. Now we explain the features of these four types:

• Brute-force refers to the software can search the password for you, you can set the range options. For example, if your password is just including digits, you just need to select all digits, you also can set the minimal and maximal length of password on the Tap Length. The brute-force range options allow multiple selection. These settings can speed up the decryption.
• Mask refers to you remember some parts of the password, maybe the beginning part, maybe the end part, or middle part. You can fill in the parts that you remembered, for the parts that you do not remember, you can replace it with question mark "?", one question mark replaces one character.  
• Dictionary requests you to make a notepad file in .txt format, then input the combination of different words, digits, characters, symbols as many as possible.  In the dictionary tap, you can speed up the password recovery by checking Smart mutations, Try all possible upper/lower case combinations, and Convert to OEM encoding. 
  

Smart attack refers to secure the password through every possible characters or combinations, you can't set the range options, but you still can set the length of the password.

In respect of recovery success rate, brute-force and mask attack are higher than dictionary attack. If you remember some parts of the password, you can select Mask attack, or you can select the default attack--brute-force. In the mean time, if you have a better computer with higher CPU and GPU that represents higher computing capability, the password recovery speed will be heightened.

You can also follow the below video to recover password