Passcode change itself

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.

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.

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 ?.

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😟

The passcode on my iPhone 6plus changed by itself while setting up my iPhone 8 plus. So yes they do change by them

Yep just happened to me. Same passcode across all my devices for over 7 years.. now it doesn't work and locked out. This is ridiculous, my last backup was over 6 months ago..

I just had this happen to me. I was restoring a backup from iTunes to a 6s. When I woke up, the passcode changed from 4 to 6. Honestly Apple, what the ****?!?

Many thanks. If it happens again, I'll use that. I went ahead and did a full restore and it is holding steady.

My iphone change its passwoord by itself too

Just happened to me too. Woke up this morning and password is not working anymore.

Sorry, In my case my brain played a trick on me.

please elaborate.

I do actually, but not one that anyone besides an engineer on the iPhone team could answer. This issue is real it just happened to me where I'm locked out of my iPhone 6S after the latest update to iOS 10.

What I'm railing against in my posts is that a lot of people on this community think that just because something is _not supposed_ to happen that it's impossible and must be human error that's causing the issue.

I've had the same passcode on my iPhone for several years (across different models). This morning that same passcode does not work. I haven't even opened settings in the last few weeks except to add wifi networks. I just feel bad for people who've had this issue, but are being talked down to with "user error."

I did not have a passcode on my Iphone 6s, I had it in my pocket. I went to use it and it asked me for a six digit passcode and locked me out. I had to nuke and pave to use the phone and lost everything.

THIS IS A BUG. There is no way I butt dialed a six digit pass code in my pocket.