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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