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- On your device, go to Settings > General > Reset. Tap Reset All Settings and enter your device passcode. Follow the steps to reset your settings. This won't affect your user data or passwords, but it will reset settings like display brightness, Home screen layout, and wallpaper. It also removes your encrypted backup password.
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- View and manage iCloud backups on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- View and manage iCloud backups on your Mac
- View and manage iCloud backups on your Windows computer
You can view and manage your iCloud backups from an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or Windows computer.
If you want to customize which apps and data are backed up, see Back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iCloud.
1.On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.
2.Do one of the following:
•iOS 16, iPadOS 16, or later: Tap iCloud Backup.
•iOS 15, iPadOS 15, or earlier: Tap Manage Storage, then tap Backups.
1.On your Mac, do one of the following:
•macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu > System Settings, click [your name] at the top of the sidebar, then click iCloud.
•macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then click iCloud.
2.Click Manage, then click Backups. A list of devices that have iCloud Backup turned on is shown.
1.Open iCloud for Windows, then click Storage.
2.Click Backups on the left. On the right, you see devices with iCloud Backup turned on.
3.To delete a backup, select a device, then click Delete.
Note: If you turn off iCloud Backup for a device, any backups stored in iCloud are kept for 180 days before being deleted.
You can also use your computer to back up your device. See the Apple Support article How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
See alsoApple Support article: Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup
Apr 26, 2020 · You will need a computer for this task and all your data on your iPhone will be wiped clean in the process. If you have a backup created then you can Restore Your iPhone from that backup file. If you do not have a backup file created then you will lose all your data on the iPhone.
- Try known passwords. First, it's worth trying a bunch of passwords that you might have used. There's no penalty to trying a number of different passwords in iTunes, although each check can take a little while.
- Check the macOS keychain. If you use a Mac and configured the iTunes backup password on that Mac, your computer may have kept a record of the password in its keychain.
- Backup to iCloud, erase the device and restore. There's also a nuclear technique for removing an iTunes backup password setting from your device. Enable iCloud backups under settings, back it up, then erase and restore it.
- Brute-force the backup password. Apple provide technical details on how encrypted backups work. Simply put, modern iOS backups use AES-256, with 10,000,000 iterations.
You can delete the password you use to sign in to a website or app on your iPhone. Go to the Passwords app on your iPhone. Tap All, then tap the account for the password you want to delete. Tap Edit. Tap Delete, then tap Delete Password again to confirm.
Jul 8, 2024 · With iOS 11 or later or iPadOS, you can make a new encrypted backup of your device by resetting the password. On your device, go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset [Device], then tap Reset. Tap Reset All Settings and enter your device passcode.
Jul 17, 2017 · 2 Answers. Sorted by: 2. I contacted Apple's technical support who said: At this point then we won’t be able to get past the passcode unless you manage to remember it at a later point in time. The only way around this would be use the phone as new, and then sync with iCloud contacts, calendar and Photo library if you use those.