How do I reset restrictions passcode

Agreed! I have never set restrictions on my phone, but I'm locked out of restrictions. I've tried every 4-character code from my life, to no avail. Naturally the user gets the blame, but I'm adding my voice to this chorus: I never set a restrictions code! Fix this bug!

mrandmrsjohnqsmith wrote:

I have never set restrictions on my phone ...

Especially considering your user name above, I suggest consulting with your spouse and/or others who may share your Apple ID.

Restriction codes do not get set by themselves, or by some pernicious application suddenly possessing your device.

Also adding my voice to the chorus. I am locked out of restrictions. I've also tried every number I've ever used for anything to no avail. I don't believe I ever would have set this as no-one uses my iPhone but me.

I believe there is some third party software that allows you to change the passcode by tweaking an unencrypted backup, but I don't want to resort to that. There are lots of videos on Youtube on how to use this. I may resort to this, but for the moment, I'm up to attempt 24. Someone said they got up to over 200 attempts before they cracked it :-/

It's pitiful that we can't log in to our iCloud accounts and change this.

I am failing to see how this is "as it should be." It's really just a poor design flaw that wasn't thought out more than two steps ahead of it's design feature. A more intelligent and thoughtful feature would have been a restriction passcode that is associated with each TYPE of restriction (i.e. a restriction passcode for purchases, for example), rather than one single passcode associated with ALL restrictions, and consequently associated with the device, AND your photos, AND your notes, AND your apps, AND your saved favorites, AND everything else that you would have backed up to the icloud, lol. How is that "as it should be?" Did you guys think that 30-somethings and 40-somethings would stop having children who they wouldn't need to restrict purchases on their iphone, but still have access to their phone for kids apps, and who would inevitably forget their restriction passcode because they got it confused with the 47 other passwords they have to remember for their online banking,bill pay, emails both work and personal, etc.? I can't help but laugh, because it's actually therapeutic. Otherwise, I'd be ripping my hair out at your generic and disingenuous response.

Booger Presley wrote:

A more intelligent and thoughtful feature would have been a restriction passcode that is associated with each TYPE of restriction (i.e. a restriction passcode for purchases, for example), rather than one single passcode associated with ALL restrictions, and consequently associated with the device, AND your photos, AND your notes, AND your apps, AND your saved favorites, AND everything else that you would have backed up to the icloud, lol. How is that "as it should be?"

Um... no. Sorry, but that would be a nightmare. People would have a dozen or more passcodes to keep track of. As it is, they can't keep track of 2.
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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.

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 🙂

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not anymore. That article is 2 years old. Apple has fixed that security hole.