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When you are going to turn off iPhone backup encryption in iTunes, it is unable to uncheck Encrypt local backup option, what can you do to solve this issue? In this article, you can get the effective solutions to fix cannot uncheck encrypt iPhone backup in iTunes issue.
Believe you have tried to uncheck iPhone backup in iTunes just like following steps when you don't want to encrypt iTunes backup later for iPhone.
1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and open iTunes on Windows/ Mac computer.
2. Click your device icon at the top-left side in iTunes.
3. Uncheck the Encrypt iPhone backup option under Backups.
4. While a dialog asks the backup password you previously set, enter it to successfully uncheck Encrypt iPhone backup.
But what if you can't uncheck encrypt iPhone backup in iTunes because of some reasons? You can get working methods below.
When you want to uncheck Encrypt local backup option, it will pop out a box to ask you enter the password to unlock iPhone backup. If you do not know the password or forgot the iTunes backup password, it is impossible to uncheck encrypt iPhone backup. So, in this situation, you need to recover the iPhone backup forgotten or unknown password with iSunshare iTunes Password Genius on your Windows or Mac computer.
Step 1: Prepare iSunshare iTunes Password Genius and iPhone backup.
1. Find an accessible Windows or Mac computer, and get iTunes Password Genius or iTunes Password Genius for Mac to install and run.
2. Make sure where the iPhone backups are saved, default iPhone backup location or external drive. If they are saved on external drive, please connect the drive to computer.
Note: Now we will run iTunes Password Genius on Windows PC to recover iTunes backup forgotten password. The steps are similar to run iTunes Password Genius for Mac on Mac computer.
Step 2: Add or import encrypted iPhone backup.
Click Open button and on pop-up dialog, some backups will be checked out automatically. Choose your iPhone backup and add it to iTunes Password Genius. If you cannot find iPhone backup from the list, please firstly browse the iPhone backup default location and then other possible drive if you have changed iPhone backup location before.
Step 3: Recover iPhone backup password in high speed.
In order to recover iPhone backup password in high speed and save your time, it is necessary to improve password recovery settings in iTunes Password Genius. By default, Brute-force is selected and there are no settings for this password recovery type. Therefore, browse the Type of attack to choose one according to what you know about forgotten iPhone backup password.
1. While you still remember some characters included in the password, choose Mask and set Mask feature. Otherwise, Brute-force is recommended.
2. Don't forget to shorten the password range and length no matter which password attack type you choose.
3. Click on Start button to recover iPhone backup password.
4. Copy the recovered iPhone backup password to uncheck encrypt iPhone backup in iTunes just like the descriptions at the beginning of this article.
Sometimes, even though you know the iPhone backup password, you sill cannot disable encrypt iPhone backup option because the option is greyed out. If there is a custom restriction on your iPhone, you might not be able to uncheck this option in iPhone.
How to fix Encrypt iPhone backup option greyed out?
As I know, this can be caused by installed Profiles. To enable the option "Encrypt iPhone backup", just need to turn on your iPhone and delete the profiles. Go to SettingsGeneralProfile and tap on the profile, then tap Delete Profile. Then connect your iPhone to iTunes on computer and uncheck Encrypt iPhone backup.
But keep in mind Profile only shows up if you actually have profiles installed on the device. If you find no profiles on iPhone, how can you do? Check whether there is "Device Management" under SettingsGeneral. If you see, it means that "Profiles" is changed to "Device Management".
If you do not want to delete the profile or you fail to delete it, how can you fix Encrypt local backup greyed out issue? You can get out of the iTunes encryption with iSunshare iPhone Passcode Genius. This software can help you to remove iTunes backup encryption without a password so that the Encrypt local backup option is unchecked. Once the encryption is disabled, it is no need to enter the password to back up your iPhone in iTunes.
Step 1: Free download iSunshare iPhone Passcode Genius on your computer and then finish the installation process. Meanwhile, plug in your iPhone and make it trust your computer.
Step 2: After that, launch the software and then click on Remove iTunes Backup Encryption option.
Step 3: When the iPhone is detected successfully by your software, you can click on Start to begin the process.
Step 4: In minutes, the encryption is removed successfully from your iPhone. When you open iTunes, you can see that the Encrypt local backup option is unchecked.
If you do not want to attach protection to the iPhone backup any more, you can try iSunshare iSyncGenius to remove iPhone backup password in case you fail to uncheck Encrypt iPhone Backup in iTunes. With this software, it is easy to delete the iPhone backup password.
First of all, connect your iPhone to the Windows computer which has iSunshare iSyncGenius installed. Then, Launch the software and tick Manage Password option. After that, you can see there are two options for you: Edit password and Delete password. You need to choose Delete password option. Now you need to input the iPhone backup password twice to delete the backup password. Once done, click the Confirm deletion button. Your iPhone backup password will be deleted in the end.
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