Apple is constantly working to improve the security of its devices. Moreover, almost every year some new technology appears in this area. It is enough to give an example such as the presence of fingerprint scanners in some models. In general, the developer approached the issue of protecting mobile devices more than responsibly. But in this material we will talk about passwords.
Almost every Apple device can be protected with a password. It is quite easy to set a password to unlock the gadget. But, in addition to this, it is also possible to set a password for restrictions. The latter is used, for example, to protect software from accidental deletion.
This article will talk about all the available methods for resetting password restrictions in Apple gadgets. Sometimes the owner of an iPhone cannot remember this password, and it urgently needs to be restored. Find out how to do this further.
Let's imagine the following situation, which could hypothetically happen to anyone. The user decided to sell his old iPhone to buy a newer model. Before this, of course, he tried to reset his settings to return them to factory mode, but the device required him to enter a password. And it just happened to be the restriction password. Of course, once upon a time, the user remembered this password, but over time he forgot it. In this situation, he began to study instructions online on how to solve this problem. It turns out that you can use one of these methods to recover your password:
- Using the iTunes utility (all information from the gadget will be deleted).
- Changing the password manually (all settings and data will remain in the same places).
In the example above, it is advisable to use the first method, that is, restore via iTunes. After all, a new buyer of a gadget will want to receive it empty in order to customize it to suit his needs.
But sometimes you need to leave all the information that was in the device’s memory unchanged. In such situations, the user first looks for a standard password on the network. Then he tries to remember his own password, once set but forgotten. But in the end this does not give any results, and you have to read professional instructions. These guidelines will be presented below.
First of all, let us note that it is not possible to recover a forgotten password. You can only try to reset it by setting a new one. This task can be accomplished both on a jailbroken device and without a jailbreak. The operation is available for iPhones running older operating systems (for example, iOS 5.1), as well as for more recent versions of iOS 7.
Restrictions password reset method without jail
We will cover in detail how to carry out the task on a device without jailbreak with OS version 7. The entire procedure is done while preserving the original data.
For this we need:
- iPhone without jailbreak on firmware version 7.
- Laptop or PC with iTunes utility and iBackupBot application.
- Regular USB cable.
The procedure itself involves the following:
- Connecting the device to a laptop or PC. For this purpose you need to use a USB cable.
- Launch the iTunes utility.
- Before starting iTunes, to avoid confusion, it is better to delete all backup versions).
- Creating a new backup. To do this, you need to right-click on the device name. Then select the section to create a new copy.
- Let's start using the iBackupBot application to create a new password. To do this, click on the program shortcut on the desktop and it will launch.
- The copy created before the start of the operation will be immediately visible. It is the only one in the system, so it will be difficult to confuse anything.
- In backup you need to find the file: com.apple.springboard.plist. For this purpose, use the search available in the iBackupBot program.
- Save the found file to your PC.
- Double-click on this file. In the pop-up window asking you to register, select “Cancel” and start making changes.
- Scroll the page to the very bottom. Find space to enter a new restrictions password. It is allowed to write it between closing tags. Or at the very end - ahead of the closing tags.
- After inserting the code, which we did in step 10, you need to save the modified file. To do this, you need to click on the floppy disk icon in the left corner at the very top. And for Windows users - Ctrl + S.
- Once the modified com.apple.springboard.plist file has been successfully saved, you can close the iBackupBot application. On the contrary, launch the iTunes utility.
- In the utility, restore the iPhone you were working on. This is done using backup, which we edited earlier. You need to click on the name of the gadget. Then go to the backups section, to the general tab. And then click on the restore from copy button. All that remains is to select the only file with a copy and confirm the action by clicking on the appropriate button.
This is what the code you need to insert looks like:
The set of zeros in the second line of code is the newly created password. If the operation is successful, it will act as a restriction password and can be used as needed.
Once the iPhone recovery operation is complete, the system will automatically reboot. After this, you can see if the lost restrictions password has been reset. To do this, you need to enter the main settings, and then the restrictions section. In the latter you need to enter a new password (0000). And if everything went well, a menu of restrictions will open in front of you.
If nothing happens at all, it means that at some stage a mistake was made. In this case, read the above instructions again and repeat all the steps again.
How to change a lost password with jail
If the user cannot remember the restrictions password, and his iPhone 4, iPhone 5 or 6 is jailbroken, it is very easy to recover the password. This method does not require a PC or laptop, nor iTunes utility. All you need is:
- Mobile device with jailbreak.
- File manager iFile.
The big advantage of this method is that you do not need to prepare any system backups and restores in advance. You just need to do the following:
- Launch manager.
- In the gadget, follow this path: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences.
- Find file: com.apple.springboard.plist.
- Click on the name of this file and select the text editing function.
- Click on the “Change” button.
- Paste the code specified in the previous method. It will change the old password to a new one - in the form of four zeros. The main thing is not to make mistakes and be extremely careful.
- Click on the save button, and then click on the “Finish” button.
Now you can go to the restrictions settings section and test the newly created password. How this is done was described in the description of the first method.
Both methods of resetting the restriction password can be used not only on iPhones, but also on other devices with the iOS operating system. And always after carrying out the procedures, all information on the device will be saved, no information will be lost.
After going to the restrictions settings, you can disable the recently created password or replace it with another one. Just now write it down in a safe place so you don’t forget it later.
Tired of entering your password every time you unlock your iPhone? So it's time to remove it! In this article we will tell you how to disable the unlock code and restriction password, as well as what to do if the treasured combinations are forgotten.
This procedure is very simple, follow the instructions below:
1 Open the Settings menu. 2 Find the “Password” item and tap on it. Important! If you have an iPhone 5S, iPhone 6/6S, SE or iPhone 7, you need to find the “Touch ID & Passcode” item. If your i-gadget runs on an iOS version lower than 7.1, you must first find the “General” item in the “Settings” menu, then in this section - the “Password protection” line.
All! You will no longer need to enter a code to unlock your device.
How to reset a forgotten unlock password on iPhone?
As you can see, if the user remembers his password, removing it is not at all difficult. But, despite the fact that most users use a 4-digit numeric code, there are often cases when it simply slips out of their heads, let alone those situations when someone decided to play James Bond and set a more complex combination - iPhone settings provide this opportunity.
So what to do when the treasured code is forgotten? Is it possible to remove the password in such a situation? Let us please you, there is a way out here, and not just one, but three.
Resetting the counter for entering incorrect passwords
If the code has not completely slipped your mind, and you roughly remember it, then you have a chance to remember it by simply brute force. However, the device will count incorrect attempts, but on the 10th it will suspect something is wrong and block all actions for a minute. After this time, you will be able to resume the search again, but now “sanctions” will be imposed against you after each new incorrect attempt - the first mistake will threaten to be blocked for 5 minutes, the second - for 15 minutes, and so on in increasing order.
After 10 incorrect attempts, the device will be permanently blocked, but if you believe that brute force will save you, you can connect your smartphone to iTunes, reset the counter of incorrect attempts and continue brute force again. How to do it?
1 Connect your iPhone to your PC with iTunes as usual. Of course, you need to connect not to any PC with iTunes, but to the one with which you have already “friended” your iPhone before. 2 As soon as the program detects the device, select it, click on the “Browse” tab, then click the “Synchronize” button.
When the synchronization procedure is completed, the iPhone will be unlocked and you can continue trying out passwords. But, of course, the “sanctions” will still be relevant - if you entered the password incorrectly 10 times, you will be blocked for a minute, and so on in increasing order. If you make a mistake 20 times, the smartphone must be connected to iTunes again.
In general, if you have a couple of password options, it makes sense to guess it by brute force. But in the case when you don’t remember the secret code at all, don’t stress yourself or your smartphone once again, but immediately proceed to one of the more drastic reset options presented below.
Resetting your password via iTunes
iTunes allows you not only to reset the counter of incorrect attempts, but with the help of the program you can completely remove the password. But! If you have not backed up data on your smartphone, this method risks complete loss of all information. On the other hand, if you completely forgot the secret unlock code, you have no other choice.
So, how to disable the passcode on any iPhone via iTunes? We follow the following instructions:
1 Connect the smartphone to the PC in Recovery Mode - to do this, you need to turn off the device, press the Home button and, while holding it, connect the iPhone to the PC. After some time (it may take 5 seconds, or maybe a minute), an image of the iTunes icon and the iPhone cable will appear on the display (if you have an iPhone 4S and older versions, the cable will be wide, if the iPhone 5 and younger models will be narrow).
That's it - all you have to do is wait for iTunes to do its job and you will have a clean iPhone with the passcode disabled.
Resetting your password via iCloud
You can also reset your password using the iCloud service; to do this, follow this guide:
1 Log into iCloud via PC and enter your Apple ID. 2 In the “All devices” section, find your iPhone - there should be a green dot next to it, meaning that the device is online, otherwise nothing will work.
The advantage of this method is that you do not need a PC with iTunes with which your device has been synchronized at least once - you can access the “cloud” from any computer (or even from a mobile device), however, it will be necessary for the iPhone to have access to the network. Essentially, iCloud and iTunes do the same job, you just need to choose the most convenient method.
How to recover data on iPhone after resetting it?
So, after iCloud or iTunes completes the reset procedure, you will receive a “clean” iPhone; when you turn it on, you will see the initial setup screen, which you probably already saw when you turned on your smartphone for the first time.
If you backed up your data in iTunes or iCloud, then during the initial setup you can “ask” the installer to extract all the information from the backup. If you didn’t make a backup, you will only be able to get a “clean” iPhone; you will lose all your data, but you will get an unlocked device.
How to disable restriction passcode on iPhone?
The iOS operating system offers users another type of password - a restriction password, which can be used to restrict access to a particular application or even to a particular function within an application.
To disable it you need to:
1 Open the “Settings” menu, then “General”. 2 Find the “Restrictions” item, tap on it - after tapping you will be asked to specify the restrictions password.
What to do when you forgot your restrictions password?
Restriction codes are forgotten much more often than unlock codes. Well, it’s true that I banned something and forgot, but when I needed access to an application or function that was subject to a restriction, I found myself in an awkward position. What to do? Firstly, it’s worth saying that you can reset the restrictions password, just like the screen unlock code, by resetting all settings via iTunes or iCloud, but there is also a less drastic way. True, it cannot be called simple, but what can you do? To reset a forgotten restriction code you need to:
1 Download and install the iBackupBot program. 2 Connect your iPhone to your PC and perform the backup procedure in iTunes.
Let's summarize
So, the answer to the question - how to remove the password on iPhone if you remember it - is very simple. This also applies to the unlock password and restriction code. However, if the treasured code has slipped out of your head, this can have very dire consequences, especially if you do not keep backup copies. So if you are one of the forgetful people, we strongly recommend that you back up your data, and write down the password itself (especially the unlock code) somewhere and hide the piece of paper in a treasured place. We do not recommend disabling the unlock code at all, because today we store too much important information on our smartphone to allow ourselves the luxury of not using a password.
Forgot your iPhone or iPad restrictions password, resulting in some device functions being blocked? In this instruction, we talked about the easiest way to recover your restrictions password, which takes just a few seconds.
We are already talking about how to recover the restriction password on iPhone and iPad using iBackupBot. However, the previously described method cannot be called simple, since it involves user interaction with the file system of the mobile device. This method does not require any special skills from you.
Note: The ability to recover the restrictions password using this method is available on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Step 1: Connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer and launch iTunes.
Step 2. Select the device in iTunes, check the box " Encrypt local copy" and press " Create a copy now» to create a backup.
Step 3. Download the utility Pinfinder. The program is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you have iOS 10 installed on your iPhone or iPad, be sure to download Pinfinder 1.5.0.
Step 4: Launch Pinfinder and in the message provided, pay attention to the column Restrictions Passcode. It shows the restriction passwords for the backup copies of your devices on your computer.
In this simple way, without having to touch the file system of your iPhone or iPad, you can find out your forgotten restrictions password. After that, all you have to do is go to the menu “ Settings» → « Basic» → « Restrictions" and indicate the found password.
The “Restrictions” function or, as it is also called, “Parental Control” is the ability to restrict iPhone and iPad users’ access to certain functions or programs on their iOS device.
Enabling this function is quite simple. To do this, you need to go to “Settings” – “General” – “Restrictions” and specify a password before activation.
Using the Restrictions feature, you can prevent a child or teenager who is the main user of the device from accessing sites containing adult content, or, conversely, allow access only to specific sites, prohibiting all others.
You can also impose restrictions on music, movies, TV shows, books, programs, and even Siri, preventing it from recognizing swear words, for example.
In addition, the Restrictions feature can prevent you from changing privacy settings for a number of services and programs, including Location Services, Contacts, Calendars, Photos, Bluetooth Access and much more.
The problem occurs when the set restriction password is forgotten.
What to do if you forgot your iPhone restrictions password
If attempts to remember a previously entered password are unsuccessful, users have the following options:- Recover in iTunes with loss of information stored on the device. After the procedure you will receive a pristine device.
- If you do not want to lose information stored on your gadget, you can try changing the password on your iPhone or iPad yourself without jailbreak.
- Manually change your password on iPhone or iPad with jailbreak with the preservation of all information stored on the device.
How to reset restriction password on iPhone/iPad without jailbreak
First of all, I would like to note that to perform this method, you need to acquire additional software - iBackupBot for iTunes, which is a program for managing backup copies of iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.To install iBackupBot, you need to go to the product’s special web page and download the Windows or Mac version of the utility you need, the trial version of which is free to download and use.
After a simple installation and launch procedure, the user will see something like this:
We connect our device to the computer using a USB cable and launch iTunes. Go to “Edit” – “Settings” – “Devices” and delete all backup copies of your iPhone or iPad so that you don’t get confused later and make your future work easier.
Then we create a new, fresh backup copy of the iPhone or iPad in iTunes by selecting the desired device in the sidebar and, in the “Browse” tab, click on the “Create a copy now” button. Also, as an option, you can right-click on the device displayed in the left side panel and select “Create a backup copy” in the menu that opens.
For insurance, you can copy and save the original file by right-clicking on it and selecting Export Selected item(s) from the menu.
Next, double-click on the file and a window opens with an offer to buy the full version of iBackupBot. We reject the offer and continue our work on resetting the password.
After refusing the purchase and entering the registration code, the contents of the file opens to us, where we need to insert the following lines of code:
To insert lines of code, we look for a place to copy them. For me it will be between lines 83 and 84. Paste the lines of code and don’t forget to save (floppy disk icon in the upper right corner). This is what it looks like before editing:
And after editing:
The four zeros indicated in the last line of code are our new password for the “Restrictions” function.
If you did everything correctly, after recovery your restriction password will become “0000”. If, when you enter four zeros, the device informs you that the password is incorrect, then a mistake was made somewhere and the entire procedure will have to be repeated again.
How to remove restrictions password on a jailbroken iPhone or iPad
A faster and easier way to recover the restrictions password while saving all the information awaits owners of an iPhone or iPad with a jailbreak. To do this, gadget owners will need the shareware iFile jailbreak application, which, of course, can be found in Cydia.Forget all the fuss with iTunes, deleting and creating backups, and working with iBackupBot on your computer. If your iOS device is jailbroken, all you need to do is launch iFile directly on your iPhone or iPad and get started.
Go to var – mobile – Library – Preferences and look for the already familiar file com.apple.springboard.plist, tap on it and select “Text Editor” in the menu that opens.
In the upper left panel we see the “Edit” button, tapping on which allows you to edit an existing code.
We select the lines of code we need and insert our own there, containing the numbers of the new restrictions password:
As you can see, resetting a password is not a difficult thing, but under certain conditions, such as the desire to save all the information on the device and the absence of jailbreak, it can force the owner of an iPhone or iPad to devote some time to the process. Therefore, do not forget your passwords, train your memory or use some aids to remember them.
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Developers from Apple never sit idly by and are constantly developing all the technologies used in the iPad and other types of mobile devices.
Among other things, a program is actively being developed that allows you to set a restriction password on the iPad.
Today, any modern Apple mobile device can be protected with a password. Password unlocking on tablets has long become commonplace, but not everyone knows about the ability to set a password for restrictions.
What to do if you forgot your iPad restrictions password?
This happens quite often, and without the appropriate knowledge, this nuisance can develop into a big problem. People often set such passwords, but rarely use them, so it is quite easy to forget them.
This is often encountered when you need to reset all settings on your tablet; it is precisely these actions that are limited by the restrictions password. The easiest way to reset the restriction password is to completely restore the iPad via iTunes, but in this case no information will remain on the tablet.
But what if there is a need to save information? In this case, there is nothing left but to find more gentle methods.
Safe ways to reset iPad restrictions password:
Many, faced with the need to remember a forgotten password, immediately go to the Internet and try to find all the useful information. Sometimes it helps to find a standard password, but if the owner of the tablet changed it himself, sooner or later he finds a page like this.
It is impossible to extract the required code directly from the phone itself. Many people tried to do this, but they were not successful. You can change it without deleting all information from the device. The replacement can be done with or without a jail, and this method is effective for iPad firmware from 5.1 and higher.
The method we propose requires a USB cable and a computer with iTunes installed on it. You will also need the iBackupBot program and the affected tablet itself.
Procedure for changing the restrictions password:
- First you need to connect your device to your computer and then launch iTunes. Here you should create a new backup of your entire device using the ones suggested on the left sidebar.
- Now you can use the iBackupBot program, which will detect the backup (you should also create a “backup” backup file). Double-click the file and start editing it.
- Digging through the file, you can find a place where you can insert a new password. If there is no closing tag located under ContryCode and ru, you can insert the code yourself at the end of the file, before the tags And.
You need to insert the following code:
Where 0000 is the new restriction password.
As the file to restore the backup copy, you should select the same document that was edited. The iPad will then reboot and you can check if the method worked.
In 99% of cases it does not work due to the inattention of the users themselves. It should be remembered that such files are a delicate and fragile system in which the removal of one character can render the entire file unusable.
