How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

>>> 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.

I was struggling with this thing all day. I did what the instructions had said to do and couldn't find the SBParentalControlsPin string and then it dawned on me "Is it possible that the PIN is the default 0000." Lo and behold, that was it!

For anyone trying to figure out why the SBParentalControlsPin string doesn't show up, try 0000 (zero, zero, zero, zero). It worked for me!

I'm getting -37 error, and i found out that's why i need to disable "find my iphone", BUT, i can't do this because one of my restrictions - wich i don't remember the fu***ing password - it's just to don't allow to disable "find my iphone"... so, what do i do? any suggestions??

i don't care about loosing all my stuff and data, i just want to get access to my iphone =/

thanks!!

You will have to remember your Apple ID password or reset it. There is no way around this; it is the antitheft feature of iOS 7 (and there is a bill in the US congress to require all phones to have this feature).

If you don't remember your Apple ID pasword (which is strange, because you needed it to post to this forum) go to https://iforgot.apple.com and try one of the several methods for resetting your password.

I do remember my Apple ID password.

I'm talking about the 4-digit restriction code, the one that you access in Settings > General > Restrictions

AND, inside this area, we have the option to restrict the "Find My iPhone" option for disable it. So that is my problem, for my own safety, I restricted this option and some others, as delete apps, camera, etc.

So I am stuck now, because "Find my iPhone" option is enabled, and i can't disable it, because i just don't remember my 4-digit restriction code.

Go to https://icloud.com/find. Erase your phone, then delete it from the account. This will remove the Find my iPhone and Activation Lock.

Thanks Lawrence, it worked! I'm still setting up all the stuff, but it seems to be allright now! thanks again

You're welcome, and welcome to the Apple Support Communitites.

worked with iphone 5s running ios 7.0.5. I used i file to edit plist. saved, respring and everything good now.

Yeh I have the same ****** problem... Im sure some badass apple nerd out there knows what program to use to get into the backup (program like notepad ++ i got that btw) and delete the restriction password. Than back it up and all problems shall be solved.

Plz tell me where to find that restriction file thx.

-Del

I followed these instructions very carefully but iBackupBot hung on restore towards the end. Maybe something has changed with iOS7 since you posted this back in 2013.