How to Enter a Blank Backup Password in iTunes (OS X Mavericks and Earlier) ISO-8859-1 should still be the category selected, if not, select it.ĭouble-click the very first (topmost and leftmost) box from the ISO-8859-1 category, and you should get a single character in your iTunes password box now. Reopen the Special Characters window from the iTunes Edit menu again. Select the ISO-8859-1 category from the left column.Ĭlose your Characters window because it's likely a bit buggy now (no joke.)

Scroll ALL the way down and expand 'Code Tables.' Scroll down through those, check the box for 'ISO-8859-1', and click Done.

From the expanded view, click the little gear button and select 'Customize List' from the menu.

If it looks like this condensed window, select the window-y icon in the upper right to expand the window. A few times I had to select it in the menu a second time for the window to appear.) (From time to time, there is a large lag for my Emoji & Symbols window to load. When you see the password dialog box, from the Edit menu, select 'Emoji & Symbols'. How to Enter a Blank Backup Password in iTunes (OS X Yosemite and Later)īring up the password dialog box for whatever need you have, whether that be restoring or disabling encryption. Trying to restore or turn off encryption. But, iTunes won't let you enter a blank password when The iPhone and used with any computer or backup software you That blank password is set, it is stuck there, because the backup password is a setting is stored on We believe that the blank password was set by some third-party backup software. We see some iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch backups encrypted with a 'blank' Restoring, or to disable the encryption option in iTunes.

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