My iPad reset its own passcode

SImple Passcode is 4 digit.

If you disable Simple Passcode it will be more than 4 digit.

Back up your iPad using iTunes.

The mere presence of a backup often precludes the need to ever use it.

You're funny BB.... 😁😁😁

GB

BloodyBrook wrote:

Backed up on iCloud two hours before the mutiny.

"iCloud Backup" does not back up everything on your iPad. There is no substitute for using iTunes to back up your iPad to your Mac. Read below the line for a more thorough explanation.

Be sure to back up your Mac as well.

Do all this and the ghosts will lose interest in your iPad and move on to more gullible victims.

"iCloud Backup"

Apple says you get "unlimited free storage for music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books" but then goes on to say "previous purchases may not be restored if they are no longer in the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBookstore". Therefore what you purchased is really not "backed up". Your "backup" is no more than your ability to download your purchases again, and that is nothing new. The content remains where it originated - on iTunes, if it's still available.

Apple could easily change its mind and remove it, change it, or simply make it unavailable.

Photos and videos in your camera roll are backed up, but photos and music that originated on your computer's iPhoto and iTunes Libraries are not.

Your free 5 GB of iCloud storage is also used for iWork documents stored in iCloud, app data, all of which is lumped in with "Storage and Backup".

Same thing for iTunes Match I'm afraid... iTunes Match does not back up your content and is therefore not a backup strategy. It finds a "match" in its vast library and permits you to access it. There have been a lot of complaints from purists who found their mono Beatles tracks were "matched" with stereo equivalents, "explicit" tracks matched with clean, etc.

Contrast this with a traditional backup associated with iTunes syncing. In that case everything really is backed up to your computer - apps, purchases, music, videos, everything.

The bottom line is that iCloud is no substitute for one's own iTunes backup, and a backup / clone of the device containing it.

More:

Should I use iTunes or iCloud to back up my iOS device?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5262

iCloud: Backup and restore overview

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4859

iOS: How to back up:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

Well, this is interesting. I just purchased an iPad today, got home, synched it to iTunes and restored data from my old iPad. I leave it alone and watch TV.

I come back and iPad is asking me for a password!!! I never ever entered one. The password on the old iPAD still works on the old iPad, 4 digit number.

The new iPad is showing me the non-simple password entry and none of my previous passwords (which I write down in a protected file) work on the new iPad.

the **** thing has set its own password! aaaaaaagh. It now wants me to restore to new so I have to start from teh beginning. What a pain.

there is no doubt in my mind it set a passcode of some kind after I restored the old data.

Was the iPad you just purchased actually brand new, delivered to you in a sealed, unopened box?

My partner's iPad has had the same passcode for months. No one else uses it but the two of us. And no one else is in the house. Tonight, magically, the passcode has changed itself. The code we've both used is suddenly different, and has locked us out of the device.

So, no, you aren't alone.

The exact same thing has happened to me today. I must input my passcode 100 times a day, it has always been the same 4 digits. I have no explanation.

Happened to me yesterday. I've had the same passcode for 6 months, have never told anyone what it is, and have never changed it. Just randomly started saying "wrong passcode" last night.

Hi yarrowpwns,

And you tried resetting the iPad and then tried the passcode again?

To reset, hold down the Home and Sleep/Wake (power) buttons at the same time, and continue to hold them until the Silver Apple appears. Once the Home screen redisplays, try your passcode again....

Cheers,

GB

Hi,

Same problem but on my iphone 4. Worked well till evening, but suddenly not accepting the passcode. Can't figure out why...

cheers

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