HT201304: Use Restrictions on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Learn about Use Restrictions on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
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Dec 22, 2013 2:30 PM in response to USetiSpikeby PhilipRoy,Plug in the original password <passcode> once you have sucessfully logged in with original password <passcode> you are then allowed to reset the passcode. No other way around it.
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Dec 22, 2013 2:30 PM in response to USetiSpikeby MaxxStorm,Hello, USetiSpike!
Here is an article that will help you with your problem.
http://www.simonblog.com/2011/03/16/how-to-recover-forgotten-iphone-restrictions -passcode/
Regards, Maxx
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Dec 22, 2013 2:32 PM in response to USetiSpikeby sberman,As it says in the HT4213 article you attached above:
Note: If you lose or forget a restriction passcode, you will need to perform a factory restore to remove it.
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Dec 22, 2013 2:35 PM in response to sbermanby PhilipRoy,This information is IN-accurate. A restoration to factory reset will NOT restore the device back from pre restrictions. ONLY by having the passcode to the restrictions will remove the restriction.
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Dec 22, 2013 2:40 PM in response to PhilipRoyby sberman,Not true. A "factory reset" (correctly) implies the device is set up just as it was when it came out of the box, only with the latest version of iOS. Indeed, there are no restrictions set once the device is factory reset.
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Dec 22, 2013 2:56 PM in response to sbermanby PhilipRoy,This information you are adding sberman is correct PROVIDED the user does not restore the device with a backup. Providing the customer does not want to restore that which was originally on the device he is then free to restore the device to manufatures settings which then effectiively sets the device back to as it was out of the box. Keeping in mind once this has happened there is no turning back to any backup created using the restrictions passcode as part of the backup.
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Dec 22, 2013 3:09 PM in response to PhilipRoyby sberman,Agreed. The user cannot restore any backup that contained the restrictions passcode using the "factory reset" method.
But after all, that is just as it should be. If one does not know the restrictions passcode, one should not be able to retrieve data that was restricted using that passcode. After all, that's what the passcode was used for - a safeguard, if you will.
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Dec 22, 2013 3:20 PM in response to sbermanby PhilipRoy,I was amazed that we were willing to leave the user with the idea that things 'can' be turned around without issue.
That was the only point of my correction.
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Dec 22, 2013 3:29 PM in response to PhilipRoyby sberman,Actually, I was just as clear about the turnaround consequences as Apple's HT4213 article above. I simply quoted from that article, and did not omit any surrounding remarks about the consequences.
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Dec 22, 2013 3:36 PM in response to MaxxStormby Lawrence Finch,Not anymore. That article is 2 years old. Apple has fixed that security hole.
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Apr 27, 2014 6:28 PM in response to USetiSpikeby ctrlflame,So it looks like there is not way to do it without losing data. This is the dumbest idea that Apple ever had.
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Apr 27, 2014 6:47 PM in response to ctrlflameby Lawrence Finch,No, it's the smartest if the purpose is to protect your children. If there was any way to circumvent Restrictions I guarantee they would find it.
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Apr 27, 2014 6:56 PM in response to Lawrence Finchby Ocean20,I read that iphonebackupextractor in its latest form allows you to change the restrictions passcode.
http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/blog/2013/apr/24/reset-ipad-iphone-restrict ions-passcode
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Apr 29, 2014 8:27 AM in response to Lawrence Finchby ctrlflame,This is an Apple bug- my boss has never set up restrictions on his iPhone and since the most recent update 7, his restrictions are enabled, even though he never set up restrictions or assigned a PIN.
We have tried every possible pin that we used in the last 3 years and none of them worked. I am guessing that the iOS 7 update turned on restrictions and reset everyone's PIN to who knows what.