How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

When you made the backup, you may have told it to encrypt the backup.

Notice that I did not use iBAckupBot. I did try it but it didn't work. Therefore I used the normal iTunes backup and restore found under the Summary tab in iTunes. If your data is still on the other phone, back it up again with iTunes. To use iTunes you have to start it, connect your phone to the computer with a cable, then select the iPhone button near the top right corner of the screen. Be sure not to check the encrypt button.

Wow! When all else failed...mercifully the initial digits were "31..." so not too much time lost!

How do you reset restricions password for ios7?

You remember it, or you restore the phone as New.

What are the steps?

1. Connect the phone to your computer with a USB cable. Use a port on the computer, not a hub.
2. Click on the name of the phone in iTunes.
3. Click the "Restore iPhone" button
4. When the restore finishes and you are given a choice to restore from backup or restore as New, choose Restore as New.

After restoring you can manually add back your apps and music. All other content will be lost, unless you synced your contacts, calendar, notes and photos with apps on your computer or with iCloud.

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.