My iPhone says "Security Lockout" and won't let me enter a password to get in; how do I open my phone without erasing it?
iPhone XR, iOS 15
That can happen if there are too many passcode attempts. It will actually delay when the next passcode attempt can be made, increasing the interval after a few times. Eventually it will say security lockout, and no longer give an option to enter a passcode. The only way it's ever coming back again is if it gets erased and the Apple ID credentials are entered.
I've heard of a few of these (especially iPhone Unavailable) especially with malfunctioning touchscreens where it's just randomly entering the passcode without human input. If you don't have the option to enter the passcode after waiting, it's probably not coming back and the best you can hope for is to erase and recover from a backup.
If it is in the moronic security lockout mode, one CANNOT backup their critical data. This is a huge flaw in iPhone software.
As with any piece of computing technology, you need to back up your data before something goes wrong, not after.
Apple has made that brain-dead simple with iCloud backups.
Hello my bf iPhone say it’s security lockout and we put the right password in it but it’s not working and we try fingers print
Excellent point.
You can easily backup to your computer. Your excuse is nothing but that… an excuse.
This is some serious ********.
amitrao17 wrote:
This is some serious ********.
I always take asterisks very seriously. In fact, I find it quite upsetting when people pronounce the word "astrix". Very disrespectful.
i don’t know what to do now.
You have probably already figured out that you have two options:
1) Repair the phone
2) Buy a new phone
clever!
Do you know how to do this if it is on an iPad? This has happened to me and I rlly don’t want to erase my iPad as it has all my notes on it.
M phone is on security lock out what do I do
Did you do it?
What is outrageous is that you blame Apple for the fact that you apparently don’t consider your data important enough to back it up, either manually, or using the built-in automatic nightly backup.
Nightly backups, even weekly backups are not always possible. A lot of us work and play in the wild.
RIGHT ON 1990SE30!
Security Lockout on iPhone
