How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

Good afternoon Boz,

I read your post where you thanked someone for listing the steps you take to reset you restrictions passcode. Looking through the posts, I am unable to find where the steps are listed. I did see where you re-listed some steps that began with -Backup, however I don't seem to be able to located where to find that option on my I4. Do you have a moment to go through this with me?

Thank you in advance,

Propermee

now sorry to say but this thing didnt work out with me... i dont know y but when i try to restore the new edited backup on iphone 4 the same says that the backup is corrupt or not this device.. so help me resolving it... BigBopper66 if u can plzz tell me what m i doing wrong in it???

I downloaded backupbot, changed the parental control line to false, reset the counter to 0, saved my changes then restored from backupbot, no change to my iphone (which I recently updated to IOS6) did I do something wrong? the changes still show in the backup file, they just didn't restore to the phone...

snigglefritzbc - It appears to be much harder to do this in IOS6 because they now hash the file in question. MorayMcC outlined the steps you need to take to make the changes to the file stick.

okay i just found the answer, when you go to restrictions and it says enter password ,it actually means enter one to set it up, so at first it says enter password, so enter what you want it to be, then it says RE ENTER password, do it again, this sets up the password from now on, and your in!

Normally yes that is what should happen...

after the IOS 6 install however, some people myself included got screwed - because the password <didn't work>

And if you weren't having that issue, but just forgot the password entirely as the original poster, then obviously one can't re-enter it correctly twice in a row (because you don't know it!)

Well, problem solved... my on/off button went on the fritz and Apple replaced the phone 🙂. When I reloaded my backed up file, with the changed switch as you recommended above, the password was gone. Then I had to temporarily set up a password to change the 'deleting apps' switch to 'on' (it was stuck in the off position and couldn't be changed) and then un set the password. Yay! I think a regular old 'restore' would have done the same thing.

So I used the iBackupBot option by adding

<dict>

<key>countryCode</key>

<string>us</string>

</dict>

<key>SBParentalControlsPIN</key>

<string>1234</string>

It all worked like a treat! Thank you!

At first my phone didn't want to boot right after restore, but I held the Power and Home buttons and it reset, with Restrictions password working 1234!

Only one little problem I'm having though, Turn Password Off, Simple Password and Erase Data options are grayed out, I want to change these settings. Why are they grayed? out? 😟

I looked more into it and it could be due to me syncing with email server from work, don't know for sure, will test it when I go back to work after Christmas. I hope it's not because of this little 'hack'.

Hey all,

I went to text edit, have read this entire post, and all my springboard.plis shows is

\New item - 3_ senttweet-sound-identifierXNew item_ voicemail-sound-identifier_ sentmail-sound-identifier_ reminderalert-sound-identifierXringtone_ newmail-sound-identifier_ sms-sound-identifier\New item - 2_ calendaralert-sound-identifierP_ texttone:Sent Tweet_ texttone:Tri-tone_ texttone:Sent Mail_ texttone:Reminder AlertY<default>_ texttone:New Mail_ texttone:Calendar Alert ,IRo㨵–ÁÙ , @ U o y ç ß

can anyone help!

That app costs money :/

what did you use to open the plist file with? Text edit? that won't work as it won't understand the file so that's why all you get is that.

I used iBackupBot for everything, opening the backup and editing the file and it work like a treat. I made 2 backups just in case something goes wrong.

I have used iBackupBot, worked for me perfect. You have to pay for it, but the free trial version does enough to do this trick.

Ok, Thanks to BigBopper66, MRCoffey, and other previous posts, here is a complete step-by-step on how to reset your restictions passcode:

1) Download iBackupBot [http://www.icopybot.com/itunes-backup-manager.htm]

2) Backup iPhone/iPod/iPad to iTunes

3) Close iTunes (leave your device plugged in to your computer)

4) Open iBackupBot

5) Select your backup from the left column

6) Navigate to "Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist" (there may be two files named this; try them both) and double-click to open

7) If the backup is from iOS 4.X or lower then you should be able to find "<key>SBParentalControlsPIN</key>" somewhere in this file and your passcode will be below this line.

If your backup is iOS 5 or higher, then continue on.

8) Look for and change the string for "SBParentalControlsFailedAttempts" to 0

9) Add in "<key>SBParentalControlsPIN</key>

<string>1234</string>" (without the quotes)

After

"<dict>

<key>countryCode</key>

<string>us</string>

</dict>"

10) Click save

11) Close out of that file

12) Click restore backup/file to iPhone/iPod Touch (the icon of an iPhone and a blue arrow) located under the menu bar in iBackupBot

13) After restore is done and phone restarts the password should be 1234.

I have done this on both an iPad and an iPhone 4, and it worked both times.

So this is how I solved my dillema. After numerous searches of all of my backups via extractor and other tools, I stumbled upon this site.

http://http://securityxploded.com/apple-itunes-password-decryptor.php

This brought up a couple of passwords for my Apple user ID's which were imbeded in the browser history.

The first one that I checked was one I hadn't used in a LONG time.

Success at last....!!

Thanks to all the contributors despite not being able to utilize their resources to come up with a solution.