How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

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?

I downloaded backup extractor and at the bottom right it says "Expert Mode" so I clicked that, then Library, Preferences,

then scrolled down to find ".com.apple.springboard (HomeDomain).plist" as well as ".com.apple.springboard (RootDomain).plist". but neither have the information I need.

I also clicked on the long file highlighted in blue under the heading "folder" and went all the way to the bottom where it has a file called "info" and that looked like what everyone has been saying with the "<string>" in it but I can't seem to find the restrictions code.

Does any of this make sense? Getting frustrated.

The code isn't in there. You have to make the changes suggested in the post by the user on page 18 and then restore the amended back up.

It didn't work for me at first.

The only changes I made to his instructions was that I had to create a new windows account and then do a back up on that account. And then amend the backup on ibackupbot. And then restore via iTunes.

i tried resetting my phone to factory settings and it said I had to turn off "Locate My Phone" first, but can't do that with the RESTRICTION CODE that I forgot.Now what can I do?

You can turn off Find my iPhone by going to https://www.icloud.com/find and log in with your Apple ID.

Thank you. Thank you!

I have windows but once you download the windows version of plisteditpro it works like a dream.

The end of over a month of frustration!!

PS Iphone 3GS with latest IoS

After hours of searching and trying, walldogkl's solution on page 18 worked for me (thanks!) with some modifications. I'm running iOS7.0.4 on an iPhone 4 with iTunes 11.1.3 (8) on my MBPR 15".

After viewing, editing and saving the .plist file in iBackupBot, "Restoring Backup/File to iPhone" withiBackupBot did not work for me. But I was able to restore with iTunes.

So my steps were

1-6)

8d)

9)

then save in iBackupBot

then restore with iTunes

And I set my new password in step 9 (instead of '1234'), which makes step 14 unnecessary.

One more thing to be added...if you want to use iBackupBot full version then here is the registration detail for windows:

name: ce4arab

code: 571F426DAE04878AEB753B2C6354481405C440E5 E97F34C56823E8F2184FB4F

Genius!!!! Was very nervous about trying this as I am no techie, but WOW! It worked like a charm. I did exactly what Petaflop listed but I WAS able to restore my iPhone 5 with iBackupBot. Thank so much walldogkl, you are a genius.

@walldogkl

Found this post after a lot of searching. Thank you so much for a great solution and a brilliant description of the fix

Geoff

Iphone 3GS 6.1.3

>>> So I could try all my codes, but Apple decided that I must wait 1, 5, 15 and then 60 minutes between each attempt. Thanks Apple. So I could go through the rest of my codes, one every hour, or I could try and work out how to restore my phone.

>> just commenting on 1,5,15,60 minutes wait.

but there is a one shortout that works around the wait. (works for me)

once you know you are going to start the attempt.

1. turn off automatic setting of timezone under general - settings - date&time.

so now the time setting is manual.

2. set some back date and time manually.

say if today is 20th Sept 10am 20mins, then set date as 1st sept 10am 20mins

3. now you are ready to start your guess attempts.

4. go to general - settings - restrictions and try your attempt.

if the guess is wrong...

it would tell you wait for 1 or 5 or 15 or 60 minutes depending upon how many failed attempts you have.

5. so now to by-pass the waiting minutes , go back to date and time.

general - settings - date&time. - forward the time by that many times.

so if the currect was 20th Sept 10am 20mins , and the failed restriction attempts says wait 60mins.

so change date time to 20th Sept 11am 21mins.

This fools the iphone to time that the wait time has passed away.

6. go back to general - settings - restrictions , and you will be able to enter restriction code attempt again.

Once you are done with you restriction code attempts, then you can reset the time back to the current date and time.

I think i'm dying considering i've been sitting in front of my pc for more than 5 hours now. I've tried like more than 5 different type of solution and none work. I'm stuck at step 5 (?) Can you all make a picture tutorial or something? bcause im dumb. Thank you very much

Thanks to you and Tomhr260's for these instructions. Worked like a charm.

Hi,

I was excited to find these posts and I followed all of the instructions (using iBackupBot, etc) and now my phone will not even turn on. Sometimes it will show the apple icon and try to load, and then stop. I think I should have just accepted that I had restrictions on a passcode I never set and lived with it instead of trying anything...now I do not have a phone 😟.

Any thoughts anyone? Thanks for your response.

P.S. my power button does not work, I use accessibility to turn my phone off and power charging by wall plug or usb plug to turn it back on. This might limit my ability to reset.

Just read thru all of this and I have the iOs7 and just wanted to remind some people that if you are able to download an app and parental restrictions wasn't used there.....you can download the app find my iPhone directly to the device as long as you know the apple I'D and password you can sign into the app and wipe the device under actions. That is an option like I said for people who don't have app purchase restrictions. After the wipe it is important that you try and reactivate the device as a new device but and you will.have to enter the apple ID and pass code one more time. The reason for that is when u remotely wiped it you were essentially saying that you lost ur phone and no one can activate it until the original owners verify with the apple id and pw. Good luck be this saved me a lot of time having to download stuff to my computer etc.