How to reset forgotten Restrictions password with iPhone restore?

Im trying and its not working! Help!!!

Thank you so much, just one or two little snafus. First I copied and pasted from your post and there was an error with the amount or unseen digits. So I went further back in posts and found a post by someone else with the info to copy and paste and this time it worked. Second, after the iPad was restored I had a very very hard time getting it to boot. I would get the apple and then it disappeared and then nothing. I then held both the on button and home button to do a hard restart and I would get the apple and then nothing. After a million times of holding both buttons, the apple finally stayed on the screen and I got the progress bar of booting up. Got into settings/notifications and finally able to get in and get rid of the restrictions with the new 1234 passcode. I did this with a iPad 2 and IOS 6.0.1🙂🙂🙂

I open iBackupBot, this is what it says:

<key>SBParentalControlsEnabled</key>

<true/>

<key>SBParentalControlsMCContentRestrictions</key>

<dict>

<key>apps</key>

<integer>1000</integer>

<key>countryCode</key>

<string>se</string>

<key>movies</key>

<integer>1000</integer>

<key>tvshows</key>

<integer>1000</integer>

Nothing about SBParentalControlsKey!

I've tried the find option, but iwon't find it. Help!

Hi ZeppoMia,

I'm getting the same "error code:-19/35/36"...

Could you please explain a bit more what you did exactly to overcome this?

"reboot" > reboot your iPhone by holding the Power and Home buttons?

"and go back to original settings" > do you mean going to "Settings" on your iPhone, then "General" > "Reset" > "Reset All Settings"?

Thanks so much in advance!

ok I download the ibackup application and made the changes to the file. Only problem is the software does not save the changes I made except for the one edit to the number of attempts. Why is that? So obviously the restore did not work except the number of attempts was reset to 0 of course.

I tried the edits to the plist file and did the restore. my attempts reset to 0, but the restriction passcode did not change to 1234. I am running IS 6.1. Does the trick work on IS 6.1

I tried to set the time for my restriction code to the future and also to the past to shortcut the time for trials and now i need to wait 1234564234532 minutes for reentry

is there any info how to help with this sh*'#*?? to also reduce this time or the attempts to 0 in the backup somewhere?

thanks! you would help a lot!!!!!!!

Hello

Thats what I do and when I restore my iphone from the backup I cannot remove the restriction with typing 1234

what di I do wrong?

Please help me!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>SBParentalControlsFailedAttempts</key>

<string>0</string>

<key>SBParentalControlsPIN</key>

<string>1234</string>

<key>calendaralert-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:Calendar Alert</string>

<key>newmail-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:New Mail</string>

<key>reminderalert-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:Reminder Alert</string>

<key>ringtone</key>

<string>&lt;default&gt;</string>

<key>sentmail-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:Sent Mail</string>

<key>senttweet-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:Sent Tweet</string>

<key>sms-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:Tri-tone</string>

<key>voicemail-sound-identifier</key>

<string>texttone:Tri-tone</string>

</dict>

</plist>

Take care!

there are 2 folders called "Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist"

and of course it was the other one

OMG thank you for all that contibuted here.

I have had my iPhone 4 restricted for over 2 years to stop my child acidently spending money from inside stupidly so called "free" games. having set this pin over 2 years ago I had no idea what the pin was but had not been concened either. Recently I needed to restore an in app purchase for work and found that I could not do this due to the restrictions even though I was only restoring a purchase not making one (the purchase was made on an unrestricted iPad). Restoring the phone is not an option as some of my work Apps are not yet 6.1 compatiable and a restore will also make me update.

Fortunately after much frustration I came upon the idea of booting up my old iMac and found a backup of the phone from shortly after it was first purchased. Extracting this old backup I was able to finally find the old pin.

Thank you all so so much as this has rescued me from much pain.

🙂

The iBackupBot backup edit method by adding:

<dict>

<key>countryCode</key>

<string>us</string>

</dict>

<key>SBParentalControlsPIN</key>

<string>1234</string>

works even on iOS 6.1.1 if it is done correctly.

Yup, confirmed on iOS 6.1.1, works like a charm.

Tomjr260 - after many attempts of trying to remember / unlock the restrictions code on my iphone your post finally helped. iOS 6.1.1 meant that the other suggestions would not work and your simple step-by-step instructions saved me! Thanks so much!

Thanks so much Tomjr260 for this "walk-through". I was nervous about fooling with the codes, but I figured I had nothing to lose. At best it would work, at worst I would have to start from scratch.

It was the best! This time, I'll write my restriction code down. (I need it to keep my pesky kid safe.) Two thumbs up! 😍

Of course, your kids can read this forum also. Or find the instructions elsewhere on the Internet. Which is the general problem with any security system that has a "back door".