Passcode Requirement: You must change your iPhone unlock passcode within 60 minutes.

There are individuals who have replaced their 4 digit code by a 6 digit one after this has occurred on the their device. They state that the incident has not repeated itself

Gotta love the unhelpful condescending replys people leave. I just had the same problem but I didn't change my passcode. I searched online and found nothing worthwhile about the issue. I just downloaded an app I saw in a Redmond Pie article called System and Security Info and it shows two anomalies dealing with accessibility but now I'll have to research that. Doesn't seem like it would have anything to do with passcodes. So, I still would also like to know why we are getting these passcode popups for no reason.

I've reported your rude remarks which were unnecessary and not helpful to the OP who, ironically, found my reply Helpful.

Hi

Got this 6 months ago just changed pascode from 4 digits to 6 digits on problems .

Cheers

Brian

To have a better understanding of this prompt you are receiving, and it's origin, can you check a few things for me?

Go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars and verify if there is an active Exchange account linked to your iPhone?

Secondly, check Settings>General>[scroll down] and check for a Profile or VPN that may be setup.

These items have a means of controlling certain settings on your iPhone and may require more specific securities depending on their provisioning from the server end of said services. These requirements have no means of "opting out" unless you were to remove the service in question in its entirety.

Thanks, BBoiss - unfortunately, this is not the case in my situation. I appreciate the information offered, though.

Then it would seem this is something brought on through a link that may have been clicked in Safari at some point. I recommend that you close Safari out of your App Switcher [double click the home button and swipe Safari up so that is disappears], Clear History and Website Data under Settings>Safari and reboot your iPhone by holding the Sleep/Wake button and choosing Slide to Power off. This message is not brought on by design in the iOS software alone.

Worked like a charm, sir! Thank you very much.

Not a problem. Glad I could help!

Hi thanks for this post and I am sorry others do not appreciate it.

When researching an issue I always select "within the past week/month" for the most recent occurrence since software changes soo much, if you had not posted this I probably wouldnt have been brought to the Apple forums, so good job!

I can confirm the hard reset cleared it for me. Close Safari, clear history and browsing data then hold home/sleep until the reset completes.

Thanks!

Thanks for posting. I googled when I had the same thing pop up on my screen and came here. However, the first post I read was in 2012 so it is good that we can rule out that it is firmware issue. I also prefer to read recent postings since technology changes so quickly. But first, rather than following the prompt "requiring" me to change my password, instead I went directly into settings > passcode and changed it there to a alphanumeric code instead of my usual pin. Then I took yalls advice and cleared my safari history and rebooted my phone. So far so good.

Hi

I had this 6 months ago its want you to change from a 4 digit code to 6 digit

For better security just change to6 digits no problems .

Cheers

Brian

Same issue in my iPhone 6 just started. No profiles VPN business software etc. Never happened before. What is causing this. It looks like malware.

I would like to further this question with some more information that I have not seen posted yet.

I received this message last night and ignored it as I was going to sleep.

This morning I awoke to discover the the message returned, but without the 60 minute warning. It forced me to change my passcode and would not allow me to do anything on my iPad. I didn't change it through the prompt, and tried a reset (Hold Power and Home). The prompt still came up so I connected to iTunes to either restore an old backup, or just format it. iTunes popped up saying that I need to reclick a prompt on my iPad to trust the computer, but the Passcode Requirement was still forcing me to change my passcode before I could do anything.

So whether or not this is an actual iOS prompt, it certainly has access to the system, which is kinda scary if Apple has no idea about it according to people's conversations.

I re-changed my password through Settings, but still a little worried about what this prompt may be. Luckily I rarely use my iPad and it has no personal information. I may still format for good measure.

I'm usually pretty careful with websites, and really rarely even browse on my iPad. Just some Candy Crush and Facebook.

I'm wondering if a common link could be iTunes? I hadn't synced my iPad to iTunes for months. Is this the case for other people reporting the issue? Maybe there's a weird security requirement in the OS that freaks out if it hasn't connected to iTunes in a while?