I can't access my iPhone back as I don't have the password

Please, how do I find the password to my iPhone backup?

Thank you Lawrence.
What is annoying me is that I do not recall ever pressing encrypt; AND that there is NO WAY to retrieve the "forgotten" password.
I have been using Apple products since the early 90s because they are brilliant.
But, I feel like this is the sort of crazy non-apple thinking that is now besetting Apple and it makes me cross.
I have checked at work and no one at work in IT knows if or when they set a password ... nor do I recall doing it.
Either way, pretty crazy "security" thinking if you ask me.
Once I get the new phone set up, I don't think I can change the ITunes set up now because I clicked encrypt last night (on the advice of apple ideas to enable me to change password) and now I can't UNencrypt ...
It's just stupid thinking
and for the unenlightened IT person like myself, I expect better of Apple
ie I expect things to WORK without me having to be an IT genius

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