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by nowherecat 3127 days ago
Haha, this is too funny. I have an iPhone 5s that I encrypted years ago with a password that I have unfortunately forgotten. Had to start from scratch with my iPhone 6s, because of this. I stopped updating the 5s, hoping that one day there will be an exploit that makes it possible to break in and pull the data. Who would have thought that instead I will be happily upgrading to iOS 11, because apple made it a feature.

I know this is bad, but for me it is awesome right now.
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nowherecat 3127 days ago
So I reset my forgotten password with this method and now cannot set a new password. Every time I get

> The password you entered to protect your iPhone backup could not be set. Please try again.

What happens then is: the password i set is actually active, becuse to back up i have to enter that password - but as soon as i unplug the iPhone and plug it back in, I can/have to set e new password.

I updated iTunes to the newest version, restarted the iPhone, reset the iPhone settings multiple times, but I cannot encrypt the backup anymore. Weird.

edit: (the solutions to this problem that google offers did not solve the problem)

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ma2rten 3127 days ago
I would try contacting apple support. They are pretty helpful.
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nowherecat 3127 days ago
Seems to be a bug. You set a password, get told that it could not be set, but then just ignore that dialog because it turns out to be set.
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