Sunday 26 February 2017

Recover Messages without iPhone backup Password


“ I have done my iPhone messages backup in iTunes, but i encrypted it when i did backup to protect it. Now i couldn’t remember the password, what can i do to recover messages without iPhone backup password?”

As we know when we do backup in iTunes, it has the feature of encrypting our backups, so some iPhone users will choose to use it to protect their backup. By doing this way, we’ll need to input the password every time we need to view and restore the backup files. So what will happen when we forget the password? How could we recover the messages without iPhone backup password?

Now in this article, we’ll introduce you a third-party iOS data recovery software iRefone, which can help us recover as well as backup more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, WhatsApp message ect even you didn’t do any backups. Also it can help us extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows us to preview them before restoring.

So if your iTunes backups are encrypted and its password are lost, you can use iRefone to help us recover iPhone messages directly from your iPhone.

Now you can download the free trial version to have a try.



Recover Messages without iPhone Backup Password

Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC. Choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. Now we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Message” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.



Step 3. When finish scanning, you can preview and choose iPhone messages you need, tap on “Recover to PC” or “Recover to Device”.



Remark: “Recover to Device” can only works for contacts, notes and messages right now.

Recover Messages from iCloud Backup

If you have also done backup in iCloud, iRefone can help you recover them from your iCloud backup. See below steps.

Step 1. Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iCloud Backup”, log in it with your Apple ID and password.



Step 2. When log in, we’ll see all your backup files in iCloud backup, click “Download” at the end of the files.



Step 3. After downloading, we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Message” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.



Step 4. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose messages you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.



For more related issues, you can refer to below article:

Recover Lost Valentine iMessages on iPad

Backup Video Messages on iPhone

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