How to Reset Lost iPhone Passcodes

With the upgrade to iOS 9, the iPhone’s default passcode is now six numbers and even harder to remember. If you’re unlucky enough to miss too many in a row, your iPhone will disable itself and you’ll be locked out. Fortunately, all is not lost – with our handy guide we will show you how to reset lost iPhone passcodes.

Apple has taken steps to improve device security with each new iteration of iOS or iPhone. Sometimes, this works well for the end user; Activation Lock mostly prevents stolen iPhones from being activated on other carriers. There is some evidence that the number of stolen phones has actually decreased since the feature was introduced a few years ago.

You may be asking yourself – why do we have to worry about passwords? Thanks to Touch ID, I can log in with my fingerprint. Ah, but that’s what makes forgetting a password so easy. When you set up an iPhone to work with Touch ID, it can buy weeks before you need to enter the numeric passcode (or the much longer alphanumeric passcode if you have this feature enabled) because you only need to use it in the following situations. Restart your iPhone or it’s been more than 48 hours since you last unlocked the device.

And when you need to enter that passcode and you can’t remember it exactly, you realize how much trouble you might be in – after a few missed attempts the iPhone locks up for a minute, then five minutes, then a few hours… you’ll soon be out for longer than you’d want to wait. If you have access to a “trusted” computer (that is, a computer that you sync with regularly, generally speaking), you can have iPhone respond to your passcode if you remember it. After all that, if you still can’t, it’s time to take more drastic measures.

Hopefully, you recently made a backup with your iPhone. If you use iCloud, most of the important things like photos and settings are probably already backed up. If you have a reliable computer handy as we mentioned above, you can connect your iPhone and have it backed up automatically.

The easiest way to reset your iPhone is to use iCloud if you have this feature set up. simply go https://icloud.com/find – You may need to sign in with your Apple ID – and click ‘All Devices’ at the top of the screen. Find your iPhone in the list and click on it to delete both your device and its passcode. Click Delete. After your phone completes the reset, you can choose to restore your iPhone from an iCloud backup or set it up as a new iPhone (don’t worry, if your photos are synced to iCloud, you won’t lose them). you set it up as a new iPhone).

If you don’t use iCloud – and you really should – you have a few more options. Both require having a computer at hand that you can connect to.

The first requires a computer that you synced before. Plug in your iPhone and once the sync and backup is complete click on the iPhone icon in iTunes and look for the option on the left menu that says Summary. You will see a screen displaying various information about your device and a button that says ‘Restore iPhone…’. Click on it. It will reset your iPhone and bypass the forgotten passcode you put on the device.

Once you click on the Apps & Data screen on your iPhone, choose ‘Restore from iTunes Backup’ and choose the latest iTunes backup to reinstall all your iPhone apps and data. I