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26/11/2014 1 Comment

What to do when your son locks himself out of his iPhone and doesn't know his passcode

Liz E. called and asked for assistance in relation to a forgotten passcode on her son's device.  The device had been disabled due to too many attempts, and she was being stopped from restoring the device from iTunes due to the fact that 'Find my iPhone' was still set on the device - but she could not unlock it to disable 'Find my iPhone'!

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This is another regular enquiry of iTandCoffee.  It has been previously covered in the post "Help!! I have forgotten my iPad's passcode!".
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In summary, if a passcode has been forgotten, and perhaps the device disabled due to too many attempts, the steps to resolve the problem depend on whether you have an iTunes or iCloud backup of the device and whether you have enabled 'Find my iPhone' (or iPad) on the device.

It's pretty bad news if you don't have a backup

If you don't have a backup, you will (unfortunately) be forced to erase your device and return it to its factory settings, resulting in the loss of whatever was stored and set up on your device.

Restoring your device

Here is the Apple Support article that provides the various recovery and restoration options.

Needless to say, if you have any issues understanding or following these instructions, contact iTandCoffee on 1300 885 420 or enquiry@itandcoffee.com.au.

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1/3/2014 0 Comments

"Help!! I have forgotten my iPad's passcode!" 

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I have had two mums contact me in the last two days with this very question (one for an iPad and one for an iPod Touch)!  Especially for kids who use iPads for school, this can be very stressful and upsetting.

So I thought it worth describing your options here.  iTea&Coffee can help if you need assistance or advice - just call 1300 885 420 or email enquiry@itandcoffee.com.au.

But before we go into what to do in this situation, let's talk about how you can make sure a lost passcode is not a disaster for you.  

Please, please MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR DEVICE, whether it be a backup via iTunes to a computer, or a backup to iCloud.  At the very least, make use of iCloud to ensure you key information (Contact, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, etc) are safely stored in the 'cloud'.  If you don't know how to do this or need some advice, iTea&Coffee can help.  

How can you get around a lost passcode?


Unfortunately, if the passcode to your i-Device has been forgotten, the only way to recover is to start by resetting your device back to its factory settings - which means everything will be wiped from the device.  But it is not all bad news (hopefully!)

Whether you can recover some or all of your device's data will depend on whether you are using iCloud and/or whether you have previously sync'd your device with a computer using iTunes (or at least told your device to 'trust' a computer).

If you have previously sync'd with a computer or established a 'trust' relationship with a computer ...

... you will be able to plug it in to this computer, bring up iTunes, choose the Restore option, and then choose a backup from which to restore.  This could be a backup from the computer, or from iCloud.  The iOS Setup Assistant will ask which type of backup you would like to restore.

Of course, this is your best case scenario, especially if you have a recent backup.

If you don't have a backup from which to restore, you need to try to take a backup first.  This is only possible if your device has previously sync'd with the computer or has just been told to 'trust' the computer.  (If neither of these has occurred, you won't get the option to backup or restore.)  

If you have previously sync'd with the computer, do a sync and backup before you restore.

If you have previously just told your device to 'Trust' another computer (but have never sync'd with that computer), you can still choose to just backup your device to that computer so that you can restore from that backup.  (Just be careful not to sync with that computer if it doesn't contain all the media that was previously sync'd to your device, because you will wipe things you didn't mean to wipe!  This can be a real trap for those who don't really understand iTunes and sync'ing.)

Before wiping and restoring your i-Device, you can double-check you have the necessary backup available on your computer by going to iTunes menu, then Preferences (or Properties if you are on Windows), looking at the Devices 'tab' and seeing whether your device's backup is in the list and has the right date and time (see image below)

If you want to double-check the date of your latest iCloud backup, you can go to another device that is connected to that iCloud (if you have one) and go to Settings->iCloud->Storage and Backups->Manage Storage, and touch on the name of the device for which you don't have the passcode.  This will tell you when that backup was last taken.

Having checked that you have a backup available, you can then safely choose to Restore, which will wipe the device completely.   When the iOS Setup Assistant appears, choose to Restore from iTunes Backup or Restore from iCloud.  You should then be able to reset you passcode.

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If you have not previously sync'd with a computer, set up a 'trust' relationship or can't access any such computer any more ...

... there are a couple of options.

If you have 'Find my iPhone' turned on for the locked device (through iCloud), you can choose to do a remote wipe of the device, which will restore it to factory settings - and hopefully then allow you to restore from an iCloud backup (if you were backing up the device to iCloud of course!).

If 'Find my iPhone' was not turned on, you will need to use a computer that has iTunes and put your device into something called 'Recovery Mode'.  The following are the instructions from the Apple Support website:
  1. Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
  2. Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to shut down.
  3. While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device. The device should turn on.
  4. Continue holding the Home button until you see the Connect to iTunes screen.
  5. iTunes will alert you that it has detected a device in recovery mode. Click OK, and then restore the device.
If you have an iCloud backup, you will be able to choose to Restore from iCloud backup when your phone is in setup mode.  If you don't have any such backup, you unfortunately will be starting from scratch.

If you don't have an iCloud backup but still had iCloud turned on, you will at least get back all of your Contact, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Safari bookmarks, Photo Stream and Documents & Data as soon as you sign in with your iCloud Apple ID (assuming you had those iCloud features switched on!).

Once I have restored from backup, will my device have everything it previously had?

Backups don't contain content synced to the device, such as movies, music, podcasts, and apps.  These are re-downloaded when you sign in to the Store with your Apple ID.  Any music that you did not purchase with your Apple ID will be not be restored to your device - you will need to sync with the device from which the music came to re-instate it.

Below is the list of things that do get backed up.  
  • Camera Roll (photos, screenshots, images saved, and videos taken)
  • Contacts and Contact Favorites (regularly sync your contacts to a computer or cloud service, such as iCloud, to back them up)
  • Calendar accounts and subscribed calendars
  • Calendar events
  • Safari bookmarks, cookies, history, offline data, and currently open pages
  • Autofill for webpages
  • Offline web application cache/database
  • Notes
  • Mail accounts (mail messages aren't backed up)
  • Microsoft Exchange account configurations
  • Call history
  • Messages (iMessage and carrier SMS or MMS pictures and videos)
  • Voicemail token (This isn't the voicemail password, but is used for validation when connecting. This is only restored to a phone with the same phone number on the SIM card)
  • Voice memos
  • Network settings (saved Wi-Fi hotspots, VPN settings, network preferences)
  • Keychain (includes email account passwords, Wi-Fi passwords, and passwords you enter into websites and some applications) 
  • App Store Application data (except the Application itself, its tmp, and Caches folder)
  • Application settings, preferences, and data, including documents
  • In-app purchases
  • Game Center account
  • Wallpapers
  • Location service preferences for apps and websites you've allowed to use your location
  • Home screen arrangement
  • Installed profiles
  • Map bookmarks, recent searches, and the current location displayed in Maps
  • Nike + iPod saved workouts and settings
  • Paired Bluetooth devices (which you can only use if restored to the same phone that did the backup)
  • Saved suggestion corrections
  • Trusted hosts that have certificates that can't be verified
  • Web clips
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