Q: to allow acesss please respond on your iphone, but my iphone isnt responding.. my phone is disabled and i need to fix this error asap

You need to expain the problem a little better. What are you doing when it asks you to respond on your phone?

recovery mode

open itunes on computer

plug cable into computer not iOS device

turn device off

hold home button and plug cable into IOS device.  do not release home button until an itunes graphic appears on IOS device.

look to computer should have message about recovery mode click ok and restore

Peace, Clyde

if u need an article see

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

i had the same problem clyde77 n i tried your solution but it didn't work , iphone went to recovery mode and was working fine but after 20 minutes it again said to allow acess please respond on your iphone n i can't respond beacuse my iphone is locked. any other solutions

I am having the exact same problem and i am about to through my phone at a wall !!!

Thanks Clyde,

Your instructions worked for my son's iPhone 4s that was disabled because he forgot his pass code.  I had a heck of a time trying to solve this problem.  Many thanks!!!!!

I am having exactly the same problem with my iPad.  I haven't forgotten my keycode, my bluetooth keyboard was on in my bag and must have appeared to be entering incorrect codes.  Have plugged into my iMac, which I have synced the ipad on previously, but I too am being directed to respond on my device - which is simply telling me that it is disabled and providing me with no opportunity to interact with it.  I do not want to lose any data.  I am a bit cross about how much time this wastes.  In addition to the time wasted wading through instructions that do not work, I will probably have to take my iPad to a service agency to have them address this trivial technical glitch - at a huge cost in both time and money. Not user-friendly at all.

The ONLY way to resolve this is to Restore the phone from Recovery mode using iTunes, as Clyde has already posted. If you follow those instructions you will not need to enter the passcode on your phone. Assuming you back up regularly to your computer or iCloud you can restore the most recent backup.

And, BTW, it is very user-friendly protecting your data. If there was any way around the passcode lock the security of the phone would be worthless, as hackers would figure it out pretty quickly. The fact that no one has in 7 years shows how well your content is protected.

I had the same thing, but I just waited until the software finished on the phone and it asked me to Trust This Computer and after that it went away.

Another piece of software that Apple didn't test before unleashing it on us.  The sequence was in the wrong order. It should tell you to wait for the iPHone to reboot.

Apple tested the release on tens of thousands of phones for 3 months before releasing it. The process is called "beta testing" - it is released to all developers, and additional regular users chosen at random. If there was a systemic problem it would have been found during the beta test. So this was most likely a glitch on your phone or your computer. Or you just didn't have the patience to wait for it to finish.

That was the problem. You had to pretend the message wasn't there until the phone had rebooted, and popped the question about trusting the computer.  The message on the computer gave no indication that the question it said to answer wouldn't appear unless the phone had fully booted.  The way to present that should be for the desktop to wait until the phone is ready to pop the question before telling the user to answer it.

Hacker hostile is not the same as user friendly.  I want a low level of security - no passcode = no access - I don't want my ipad disabled.  I don't want to be hassled with frequent backing up and tedious restoring.  That's not user friendly.

So don't put a passcode on your iPad.