Today, we will
launch a debate about whether we should encrypt the iPhone backup or not. As is
known worldwide, iPhone has been update to iPhone XS series with the powerful
features. Now, more and more people will choose iPhone as their intelligent
mobile devices. When it comes to backup data security, most people will set a
password for iTunes backup. But when they forgot the password, they cannot
access the backup data. It seems that everything backup before is in vain. Therefore,
they have some doubts: should I encrypt my iPhone backup? Here we will run the
specific discussion about it.
About iPhone backup features
Apple has released
the iTunes backup encryption option for iPhone users to attach great importance
to the security of their data. If you enable encryption of your backup, others
are unable to access to all your data in the backup file without your
permission. If someone is in control of your computer, it is impossible for
them to look through your iDevice backups without the authorization.
The benefits of adding encryption to iPhone backup
Those who are in
favor of adding protection to iPhone backup through encryption support that it
is the most significant way to keep their data in safe. Also, when you enable
encrypt iPhone backup, it means that you allow the account passwords, Health and
Homekit data to be backed up. Besides, it is of great help to set up the new
iPhone with encrypted backup which will automatically stores all your existing
login passwords. If you have a new iPhone, you can just transfer the old data
via iTunes with the password. So easy and time-saving!
How to activate the encryption of your iPhone backup
When you make up
your mind to create the encrypted backup, you can do it easily with the
preparation of a computer and your iPhone.
Step1: Use a USB
cable to connect your iPhone with the computer and then run iTunes
Step 2: Find your
iPhone below the click the Summary category, you will find the Encrypt iPhone
backup option.
Step 3: Tick the
checkbox and you will be asked to customize a password for the backup. You are
offered the option: Remember this password in my keychain.
In the end, you should click the Back Up Now option under Manually Backup Up
and Restore.
What about the cons of iPhone backup encryption?
As is mentioned,
the password is needed to encrypt the iPhone backup. But if I forgot the
password, all the backup data is useless so that why not let the backup without
password. Yes, some may argue that if you do not set the password, your data
will in danger. So with a large number of data every day, which one can guarantee
the 100% safe of our information? We have to remember so many passwords
nowadays, why we add burden to ourselves in this way? Therefore, we prefer to
not encrypt our iPhone backups.
Bottom line:
As those who
oppose to the encryption of iPhone backup mention the iTunes backup password
issue, we figure out two solutions here. Firstly, it is important to tick the Remember
this password in my keychain option when you set the password. If your password
has been kept in Keychain, you can find back the forgotten password easily with
Keychain. The other solution is ask help from the professional iTunes backuppassword recovery software—iSunshare iTunes Password Genius. You can download
the Windows version or Mac version to recover iTunes backup password
effectively. Of course, finally, I am the supporter of encryption of iPhone
backup because we cannot ignore the great benefit comparing to the troublesome
of password forgotten issues.