iOS 7 forgot restrictions passcode

@Mathias Thulmann

You can try creating a new backup and doing the procedures. In case that doesn't work you will have to reset it to the original configurations.

Not sure if that will work but give it a try. Hope this helps you.

I didn't read all the replies so I don't know if this has been solved or not.

You can just set the iPhone into Recovery and restore from there; iTunes won't ask for any password, be them the Restrictions passcode, the general passcode and/or the Activation Lock (Apple ID) password.

Activation Lock will still be active, it'll just not be required to do the Restore by iTunes — Activation Lock sort of resides on the activation servers not so much in the phone itself.

You can also go the iCloud route and just remotely restore the phone from icloud.com/find, as long a it's not been jailbroken it should go normal.

Don't restore a backup since they reset Restrictions settings too. I once restored an old iPhone for a friend but it had all sorts of locks on it and it wouldn't complete the restore so I interrupted the restore by just unplugging the cable ruining its to give complete information to iTunes and just then I did complete the restore — this iPhone also didn't have a working power button so entering DFU wasn't an option.

Restarting the phone can be achieved under the Accessibility settings.

How do you get to this page because I can't seem to find it?

This didn't work for me 😟

And when I just went back into ibackupbot it shows my device twice with duplicate information? Doh, I feel like I proably didn't have any business being in there, but thought I'd give it a shot anyways...Any suggestions?

THANK YOU!

God bless you GILSONMELO

One thig to add... (this worked great btw). I tried for hours to get my iPad to restore with the edited information, but it would not transfer my new info. I finally tried this and it worked! -- After you edit the info in iBackupBot, you save it in the upper left corner, then you hit "restore" from this software, NOT in iTunes. You do need you iPad/ iPhone connected to iTunes, but the way it transfers is from the software. Once it rebooted my restrictios page was back to "0" attempts and i entered "1234" and was back in business! Thanks for this tip!! 🙂

U are a life saver

After followed the instruction, managed to access the restriction.

However in the iTunes I got following message "iTunes could not restrore the iPhone because the iphone disconnected"

Delete my old backup from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946

Solved my issue.

I am able backup and restore.

I love this community 😍

I'm having the same issue with ipad4. I have downloaded, backed up in iBackupbot, made the changes to the file,saved the file, but am having trouble getting the restore to my ipad. I dont have an iphone to plug in. So frustrated! I've put in recovery mode but still unable to restore from iBackupbot. Please help!!😢

I never installed a restricted password. But I inadvertently turned the restrictrd lock on without using a password.

Then I could not turn it off without a password I never set up.

I tried my current screen lock password and it wasn't accepted.

I discovered through trials of a few password, that the restricted password is the same as screen password that was active at the moment IOS7 was installed.

I changed mine after IOS7 and promply forgot the old one.

After several tries, success.

The restricted password screen was unlock with my old IOS6 screen password.

Now does anyone know how to change the restricted password?

I tried to use this method, but when I try to save the file it shows me this error:

How can I solve this?

...... does anyone know how to change the restricted password?

in my device at least: if you disable first the restrictions (inside "Restrictions") the ipad forgets the password and if you later activate the restrictions the device will ask you to provide a (new) password ...

It seems like somewhere between 7.0 and 7.0.4, they introduced a new resource (located in in the same folder as springboard.plist) called com.apple.restrictionspassword.plist. This holds a key with encrypted values and the OS now seems to ignore the entry in springboard.plist (and deleting the restrictedpassword.plist resource doesn't seem to do the trick either).

I put a restriction code on another iphone to see if I copied these over to the original one with the lock, the key would also be transfered. And it seems to work!

Making the following changes (in bold) to the restrictedpassword.plist changed my key to 1234:

...

<dict>

<key>RestrictionsPasswordKey</key>

<data>

IxxWEBikzuZi33zUqCBnAcWAavk=

</data>

<key>RestrictionsPasswordSalt</key>

<data>

aSbUXg==

</data>

</dict>

Hope this helps and good luck.