How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

Seriously I have followed this step by step and nothing.

iBackupBot could only locate a backup from a couple of days ago so I selected that. I amended as suggested and still nothing. I tried twice. I must've done something wrong as other people seem to be using the instructions fine. On my 26 attempt now. I have no idea what I’m restricting. I assume its facetime since that’s the only thing I’ve noticed not working.

I would actually pay someone to do this for me. I swear this is ridiculous. This thread was originally from 2011 and still Apple hasn’t created a solution.

I have literally read all 22 pages and cannot find the answer. Can anyone help? please?

It says i will lose purchased apps. And i will have to repurchase

masuma.sugar wrote:

I would actually pay someone to do this for me. I swear this is ridiculous. This thread was originally from 2011 and still Apple hasn’t created a solution.

I have literally read all 22 pages and cannot find the answer. Can anyone help? please?

That's because there is no answer. If you forget your passcode that's your problem. Apple can't help you. Apple doesn't know your passcode. If there was a way around the Restrictions passcode there would be no point in having a Restrictions passcode. The whole point is to restrict features of the phone, either to protect your children from themselves or protect content of your phone from other people who might use it. If there was a way to bypass it I guarantee your children will find it.

Alexx123 wrote:

It says i will lose purchased apps. And i will have to repurchase

No, you won't lose purchased apps, because once purchased you can download them again as often as you want to. What you WILL lose is the data in the purchased apps, such as game scores.

What does that mean losing game scores?

Suppose you have Angry Birds. You restore the phone. You put the Angry Birds app back on it. You will start with a score of zero; it will have forgetten all of your previous accomplishments.

Oh! Thats ok. Im fine with that. I dont mind. After i change this. Will there be other problems?

It says "there was a problem downloading the software for the iPhone 'Alex's Phone'. The network connection timed out. Make sure your network settings are correct and your network connection is active, or try again later." What do i do from here?

There should be no problems other than the inconvenience of having to reload your media and apps.

Except for one factor - contacts, calendar, notes, photos in the camera roll. You need to copy all of these to your computer or you will lose them. The easiest way is to sync these with apps on your computer such as MS Outlook or iCal and Address Book on a Mac. Photos are copied the same way you would with any digital camera.

The alternative is a 3rd party app that can copy files from an iPhone to your computer. TouchCopy is probably the best. It is not free, but has gotten positive reviews.

NOTE: I have no connection with the developers, and don't even own it.

I don't remember setting a restriction passcode. I have no reason to. I have no kids or anyone who would purchase items without my knowledge. There must be a way since there are people in this thread who have has success

Whether you remember it or not, you (or someone) set a restrictions passcode. If it is a company issued phone it may have been your IT department. There were ways to determine the restrictions passcode with earlier versions of iOS, by exploiting bugs in the backup file that were later fixed by Apple. No one has found a way since those "back doors" were closed.

Oh ok. It must've been my old employers. I had my work outlook email enabled in my phone. They must've set the restriction. Great maybe if I go back to them, they might know. Thanks

Hi guys i just managed to restore my passcode to 1234. I basically followed the instructions from Walldogkl (page 18_ and Tomjr260

The only tweaks i did was, I had to create a new windows account on my laptop (i think my account was infected or corrupted) and instead of restoring via ibackupbot. I restored via itunes.

This was an iphone 4 IOS7. Hopefullly this should now be able to transfer to my 5s without any problems.

I agree that this design is flawed. It should have been possible to reset this using the primary Apple ID/Password combination. Since the Apple ID also allows you to set credit card information etc., why can't it allow for a rest of a simple Restrictions Code?

Thankfully, my issue is solved since I went through all my different 4-digit numbers I use and one of them hit! But I expected better from Apple engineers.

Butsaba wrote:

Since the Apple ID also allows you to set credit card information etc., why can't it allow for a rest of a simple Restrictions Code?

Because families frequently share an Apple ID, but you may want restrictions on your children's activities, even though the use the same Apple ID.

The other reason is for that to work Apple would have to know your restrictions passcode. The passcode is an encryption key that is kept only on the phone. Your Apple ID password is known to Apple, but is NOT known to apps or even iOS on your phone (for security reasons), so if you have just the phone your Apple ID won't be enough. Do you really want Apple to have that additional information?