Passcode change itself

Hey anypats, did you notice how nobody found your input helpful? Nobody in 2016. Or 2017. Or 2018. Ya think mibbe the people who have experienced this incredibly frustrating problem needed help and not someone saying “nah you’re wrong” because I have to tell you, when it happens to you, the last thing you’ll need is spurious input like that from someone else.

And did you notice I haven’t said anything since the day I first posted? When someone first says something about it, the initial thought is that they just forgot it. Now seeing that many people have had it happen I believe it’s an issue and haven’t come back year after year and said people are wrong. Unfortunately the forum won’t let you delete or edit a post that old. My post is at the top because it was the first reply. Calling me out would be different if I had come back time and time again saying people were wrong. Have you noticed that all posts marked as helpful don’t give a solution and are just posts saying it happened to them as well? While I can’t edit my original post, the link I provided does give information on how to fix the issue if it this does happen to you.

The passcode doesn't just randomly change itself. If so there would be millions of users complaining of not being able to access their device. Most likely you used something different and at the time you set it up or changed it there was a reasonable explanation for it but now you don't remember what you used. It happens and the way to fix it can be found here:

Forgot passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled - Apple Support

This happened to my husband. Woke up this morning to his iPhone requesting a 6 digit code when it had previously had a 4 digit number. Unfortunately his phone is now blocked as a result and needs restoring. He is now on an 8 hour flight for a week long work trip with no access to work emails and no means of resolving this until he is back in the UK office a whole week later. As loyal apple customers this is totally unacceptable and will have a serious impact on his ability to do his job. I had always regarded apple technology as enabling but clearly I was wrong.

anitasta wrote:

How can this happen?

You or someone else that had access to your phone, changed it. That's how.

Impossible unless someone broke in to my house when we were sleeping and left no trace of his/her crime or it was a form of sleep walking/ghostly possession.

Passwords do not 'change themselves'. The user or any other person with access to the original passcode can change the 4 digit PIN. iPhone's do not just change their PIN's, so somebody has changed it.

As stated by many others, passwords do not just change! Somebody has to physically change the passcode, and either your husband or somebody else has changed the passcode and are not admitting to this.

There is no need to vent on the Apple Communities Support website, as this is a site for customers who require assistance and are offered this by other Apple users, and not a complaints site where you do not provide any helpful information to the original question.

For the third time:

1). You changed it without realizing

2). Someone else did and now will not admit it.

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iPhone 6s here. Just happened to me too. Same problem, same lock code since I bought it, I restarted and pump....my code doesn't work. NOW, I agree on that the code doesn't magically change, I am IT and I know that. However, it should be nice to know how this can happen without the user notice it or at least not realise what he is doing. That would be nice, not just answer "That cannot happen !!". Anyway, my iPhone is locked and not even my finger print can change that. Don't know what to do. Deleted from iCloud maybe ?.

If you seach 'passcode changed itself' under discussions their is someone who was holding his phone when it happened. Nuts! Icloud can fix your disabled phone.

Well ... My iPhone just changed its #code its self too.... same way that people are just saying and i never changed it and no one else, i woke up sent a message by WhatsApp , slept again, woke up and couldnt acces never again to it.

Im about to reset it and lose a lot of stuff.

So im starting to think #SteveJobs let them programmed to take over the #world =)

So yes its real, i dont know how is this happening, but yes, it changed the passcode its self.

thank you for posting yes it does happen!! just happen to me last night after i reset my apple id password. finger print is ok but 4 digit totally doesn't work oddly enough my password worked when i accessed restrictions in settings. sorry ppl can be so lame with their condescending responses😟

This has happened to me too ... Can't get into my phone because requiring 6 digit instead of the 4 digit I have always had ...