HT204306: If you forgot the passcode for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or your device is disabled
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Jun 30, 2016 8:33 PM in response to ashley.txmodelby KiltedTim,No. There isn't. The passcode acts as an encryption key. Apple can't crack the encryption. Without the key, it's garbage. If you backed it up on a regular basis it wouldn't be an issue.
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Jul 1, 2016 8:59 AM in response to ashley.txmodelby LACAllen,Because that is how your personal data "on the phone" is protected. If it was easy to do, your phone's data would be at risk anytime it is out of your hands. Not everything is on iTunes or in the Cloud. Plus users could possibly keep their iTunes and iCloud passwords and username physically on the phone in a note or txt message. Not to mention their banking IDs and passwords, phone contacts, health data, work information...
*That* is what's being protected by the passcode lock, which you created and forgot.
There is only data loss when you don't take the time to back up your data as mentioned.
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Jul 1, 2016 9:29 AM in response to ashley.txmodelby Courcoul,That's what makes Apple phones a tad less attractive to outlaws. Plus it makes the phones more evil-government-proof worldwide: you hold the only keys to your data, Apple cannot break in, even if compelled by any government.
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Jul 1, 2016 9:40 AM in response to ashley.txmodelby Teckid21,It voids their copyright policy preventing any coding done to the phone