itunes default backup password never set

Backup my phone through itunes and encrypted was selected but it never prompted me for a pw.

Got the new phone back to the house and of course it was asking for a pw that was never set.

Just wondering if anyone knew of where itunes might pull a password from.

Used rockyou word list, made my own word list and a couple variations, tried brute force with numbers only out to 6 places, Ive been using best64 rules on my word list as well.

Hashcat has been pretty amazing but I feel like Im just stabbing in the dark at this point.

So I figured I would ask here if anyone knew where itunes gets that password info if you dont specify one.

Im not sure if you could lose some data doing this) Thanks for the reply.

Ive searched this over in the apple community and the people that seem to be experts cant except that the OS wouldnt ask for a password when encryption is checked.

Ill check the links.

Thanks. edit: Just checked the links and Ive already read both of these.

Wish I still had the phone I traded in because this wouldnt be a problem.

But I dont so it seems to be a war of attrition at this point.

I dont know what to do at this point and I heard that iTunes will soon be discontinued.

I have been trying to recover my password for the last month and no success.

Wow, your still working on it.man.

I read your earlier post when I started looking at ways to crack it.

Ive also been thinking since itunes never asked for a password that its a fault in the programing of that version of itunes.

When I did my original backup it was on a version of itunes that came with High Sierra 10.13.6.

But since my phone is the Xs it needed the new version of itunes.

So I downloaded that and tried to restore from that version and of course asked for a password that hasnt matched anything else I have ever used as a password.so far.

I was going to try and roll back to that earlier version of itunes to see if I can get that going, some how.

Wish there was a way to just decrypt the photos I had on the phone from the backup and some of the app data.

Luckily I only lost 2 months of photos but I did lose a bunch of map data I had collected.

Working on a more detailed word lists and going to try and use that Mentalist app to generate some more passwords to feed hashcat.

Itunes Default Backup Password Never Set