Hi All,
a short while ago I was helping someone reset an older iPhone; they were having quite a few screen responsiveness issues, and as we were considering taking it into the store, we decided to make an iTunes backup and reset it as well.
As we were doing the backup, we realised that a backup had previously been done with this phone, but we couldn't remember the password. So, before resetting the phone without an accessible backup, we decided to back the phone up to a different PC, assuming that you could create a new backup on a new PC, this time without password.
What we saw, however, was that the iPhone, once connected and trusted to the new PC, would continue asking for the same password of the older backup.
Is this a known feature? I.e. why would you lock the iPhone to one backup and the respective password? Why is the backup and password set in the phone?
When I think of performing a backup, I think of being able to get the content and transfer it across, possibly password encrypting if I decide to. However, I would assume that a previous backup doesn't store its history in the iPhone, so that you can't create a new backup on a new PC, with a different password.
a short while ago I was helping someone reset an older iPhone; they were having quite a few screen responsiveness issues, and as we were considering taking it into the store, we decided to make an iTunes backup and reset it as well.
As we were doing the backup, we realised that a backup had previously been done with this phone, but we couldn't remember the password. So, before resetting the phone without an accessible backup, we decided to back the phone up to a different PC, assuming that you could create a new backup on a new PC, this time without password.
What we saw, however, was that the iPhone, once connected and trusted to the new PC, would continue asking for the same password of the older backup.
Is this a known feature? I.e. why would you lock the iPhone to one backup and the respective password? Why is the backup and password set in the phone?
When I think of performing a backup, I think of being able to get the content and transfer it across, possibly password encrypting if I decide to. However, I would assume that a previous backup doesn't store its history in the iPhone, so that you can't create a new backup on a new PC, with a different password.