{"id":7259,"date":"2016-07-11T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:18:54","slug":"encrypt-your-itunes-backup-with-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/encrypt-your-itunes-backup-with-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: How to Encrypt Your iTunes Backup with Password"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a good practice to create a backup of your iPhone in iTunes in case you accidentally delete your iPhone data. One important problem with iTunes backup is that it’s not encrypted by default. If you create a local backup stored on a computer, your backup could be accessed by anyone who has physical access to your computer. To prevent data leakage or data loss, I would recommend you encrypt your iTunes backup with a password.<\/p>\n

How to Encrypt Your iTunes Backup with Password?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Connect your iPhone to a computer (or Mac) with iTunes installed. Launch iTunes and then click on the little iPhone icon in the upper toolbar. This takes you to the Summary page.\n

    \"iphone-icon\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. Under the Summary page, you will see a section called Backups. Check This computer<\/strong> and also check Encrypt iPhone backup<\/strong> checkbox.\n

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  3. You will be asked to create a password that will used to encrypt your iTunes backup. Make sure you set a good password you won’t forget.\n

    \"set-itunes-backup-password\"<\/p>\n

    If you’re running Mac OS X, there is an additional option lets you save the password in Keychain access, and I don’t suggest you ticking that option.<\/li>\n

  4. Once you clicked the Set Password<\/strong> button, iTunes will encrypt all your local backup immediately.\n

    \"backing-up-iphone\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. When it’s done, you can verify that your backup is encrypted. Within iTunes, click the Edit<\/strong> menu and select Preferences<\/strong>.\n

    \"itunes-preferences\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. Once the Preferences window opens, click the Devices<\/strong> tab. If you spot a tiny lock icon in the row of your latest backup, it indicates your iTunes backup is encrypted successfully.\n

    \"itunes-encrypted-backup\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After encrypting your iTunes backup with a password, nobody can restore a device from the backup without knowing your password. The data in the backup is encrypted too, and no need to worry about data leak even when your computer is stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s a good practice to create a backup of your iPhone in iTunes in case you accidentally delete your iPhone data. One important problem with iTunes backup is that it’s not encrypted by default. If you create a local backup stored on a computer, your backup could be accessed by anyone who has physical access […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,10],"tags":[2825,2823,2822,2824],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-create-encrypted-itunes-backup","tag-encrypt-iphone-backup-with-password","tag-encrypt-itunes-backup-with-password","tag-encrypt-itunes-local-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}