Q: "Passcode Requirement - You must change your iPhone unlock passcode within 60 minutes."
Hello.
I had a weird incident on this old iPhone 4S, with its iOS v9.3.2 (no
jailbreaking) and Verizon Wireless. I was charging its old original
battery on a dock clock alarm station for a few hours. I entered my five
digits passcode (not numbers) and then saw a "Passcode Requirement - You
must change your iPhone unlock passcode within 60 minutes." message
(example: http://i.stack.imgur.com/KEDH8.jpg ). I told it later,
manually turned off iPhone, woke it up, re-entered my old passcode, and
saw it again. What the frak?
I searched online and it seems many people had this problem. Here's are
some things:
1. It's not a work phone.
2. I don't use cloud, e-mails, etc. on it.
3. I had wifi and cellular connections off (only turn them on when I
need to).
I went ahead and changed it passcode, but it was a four numerical digits
passcode. Huh? I thought Apple required six digits. I had to change it
back to alphanumerical passcode like I had before.
So, what the frak happened? An old bug that Apple never fixed? Malwares?
I never had seen or had this problem before on any iOS devices so it was
a first time for me. Apparently, it is not new according to the
Internet. I forgot to power cycle the iPhone to see if it would go away
before I changed my passcode (too late!). Also, it was hot today so maybe
iPhone got confused?
Thank you in advance.
iPhone 4S, iOS 9.3.2, Windows XP SP3, & Verizon Wireless
Posted on Jun 17, 2016 9:12 PM