How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

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.

thanksTomjr260 ... your post helped me unlock my iphone 🙂

I tried using iPhone Backup Extractor, but didn't find the entry for PIN. Though the workaround from @Tomjr260Tomjr260 of adding the xml element for the PIN looks promising.

Luckily for me, knowing that I didn't remember adding such a restriction PIN, I tried the code 0000....what do you know...it worked for me. 🙂

I don't know where the 0000 came from, I don't recollect adding that, so guessing some of apple's updates might have enabled this restriction with this 'default' code.

A big thank you to BigBopper66 and MRCoffey for this. Worked a charm.

I have iPhone 4s iOS 6.0.1 reset with Win 7.

Thanks again your the best.

I tried this... I only get "error -36" and my iphone blacks out and reboots itself...

I´m going crazy over this.

I cant seem to remember the f*cking code and obviously cant change it

having an 4s with 6.0.1

Thanks. One thing to add, this does NOT require buying the application. You can do this edit and restore with the free version.

Thanks.....it took me a while to figure out just click the "X" box and that notice that came up for name and number just goes away and yes it did work without paying a dime for it!

I worked it out.... Had to reboot and go back to original settings and THEN put in my edited version.

I lost a few apps but otherwise its all there =)

Glad you figured it out. I've never seen that error before.

I too want to massively thank BigBopper66, MRCoffey, other previous related posts and especially Tomjr260 for distilling the answer in an easy to follow setp-by-step guide. THANK YOU! From a very happy iPhone 4, iso 6.01 user, who can now enable iMessages, iCloud and FaceTime and finally communicate with my niece and nephew on their iTouch devices. I am not computer savvy at all and, well, a bit of a technophobe really, and had given up. This was easy peasy! Thanks SO much! 🙂