What to do if you forgot the restriction code. How to reset restriction password on iPhone and iPad

An iPhone is much more secure than an Android. One of the forms is a restriction password code.

This is not bad for parents, but if you buy a used iPhone, especially if this is your first phone of this kind, you may be limited in its use if the previous owner forgot to remove the restriction password.

Most people immediately start searching Google or Yandex and look for standard passwords for iPhone restrictions - by default.

Of course, they don’t find them, get upset, ask friends or run to the service center. Stop! There is a solution.

Where to get the restrictions password on iPhone

Remember: there is no password restriction code on the iPhone by default, and it is unknown to anyone except the one who set it - are there standard passwords on this card?

It’s just not difficult to find out – . There is no difficulty, although if it is your first time, you will have to spend some time.

In general, this is a good method, but as you will see later, it is easy to do. iPhone employees, of course, know about this and will try to make this hacking option even tougher in future versions of iOS.

Only if you come across this, then I think it’s only a matter of time before you find out the password code - there will always be hacking enthusiasts. Good luck.

Hello everyone! An interesting situation happened to me recently - in order to respond to a comment, I needed to dig into the settings of my iPhone and see if it was possible to set restrictions on a certain program in iOS. As usual, I open “Settings - General - Restrictions”, run into the sign “Enter the password code for restrictions” and understand that I simply do not remember these treasured four digits!

Of course, in the end everything ended well, but this situation made me think about this... If even I, a person who constantly tinkers with the iPhone and iPad, managed to somehow forget the password for restrictions, then what can we say about the ordinary user who uses this setting once a year, and only on major holidays?

Most likely, many will not even remember the fact that they installed this code at all. Not to mention some numbers. So what should we do now? So you can walk around without access to all the settings? Of course not. There are two options for solving this problem. Let's go!

By the way, remember - there is no “factory”, “factory”, “standard” password. The code is set by the user himself when opening the restrictions settings for the first time.

Now let's go for sure! :)

Method number 1. Completely remove the password

There is only one way to remove the code without knowing it - through firmware recovery. There is nothing complicated about this:

But this method has some very big disadvantages:

Yes, you will get rid of password restrictions. But absolutely all information will also be deleted from the device!
We decided to recover data from backup copy? There are also some “troubles” here. After all, if a copy was created at a time when the code was already installed, then when it is restored, the restriction password will return to the device.

In general, the method works, but is not very convenient - there are too many reservations when using it. Luckily, there are other options...

Method number 2. Find out the code

Yes, it's possible. And most importantly, we don’t even need to strain our memory and remember forgotten password. A special program will do everything for us!

This very program “pulls” the code from the backup copy. Accordingly, there must be at least one copy on the computer, which includes the restrictions password. If you don’t have one yet, just do it.

Victory! All that remains is to remember them and never forget them :) And finally, a few questions and answers:

And this safe program– Can it be used at all? Can. Especially considering the fact that it is openly posted on GitHub (the world's largest resource for hosting IT projects and their joint development).
With which iOS versions works? I checked it works on iOS 10, 11 and 12 - everything is fine. However, judging by the description, absolutely any firmware version is supported starting from iOS 7 (inclusive).

As you can see, everything is very simple, multifunctional and safe. Nothing complicated! However, if something doesn’t work out for you or you still have some questions, be sure to write in the comments, we’ll try to figure it out together and find a solution!

Updated! I completely forgot one very important thing when using the PinFinder program. Since the password is “pulled” from the backup copy, you need to remember this - this same backup copy should not be encrypted. Otherwise, PinFinder will swear and throw an error. How to remove encryption? It’s simple – connect your iPhone, launch iTunes and uncheck the corresponding menu item.

However, at the moment this setting (encryption) is no longer relevant, since...

Updated 2! To be honest, I didn’t even expect such attention to my modest blog, but the author of the program (Gareth Watts) wrote in the comments (for which I thank him very much!) and said that it was released new version PinFinder 1.6.0. Support for encrypted backups has been announced - now it is not necessary to disable encryption in iTunes in order to find out the iPhone restrictions password. Simply great!

Updated 3! A new version of the program has been released - PinFinder 1.7.1. What's new? Appeared iOS support 12 – Now you can find out the “Screen Time Passcode” (formerly “Restrictions”) without any problems. Hooray!!! True, in iOS 12 Apple slightly reworked the security policy and now the Screen Time passcode can only be retrieved from an encrypted backup. Remember this and be careful!

P.S. Did everything work out? A huge request - don’t be lazy to write a couple of lines in the comments about how you removed the password code for restrictions. Thank you!

P.S.S. The instructions helped, but too lazy to write anything? Please like and press the buttons social networks– the author will be very grateful! Thanks again!

Specialists Apple constantly improving the protection of their iPhones, iPods and iPads, and doing so at a rapid pace. IN iPhone models 5S, in addition to passwords, there are already Touch ID fingerprint scanners, in general, everything is serious. But today it's more about passwords.

Any iPhone phone, an iPod touch player or an iPad tablet can be protected with a password; installing the devices is quite simple, but you can also set a password for restrictions. We encountered the example of protecting applications from accidental deletion from the iPhone.

Today we will tell you how to reset the restrictions password on your iPhone or iPad. Indeed, very often there are cases when a user simply forgot his restrictions password and cannot remember it.

Forgot your iPhone or iPad restrictions password

A similar situation happened to my friend, he decided to sell his iPad 2 and buy something fresher, with Retina display(thought about iPad Air or iPad mini 2). Before selling his used tablet, Afanasy tried to execute, but the iPad asked to enter a password, it was a password for restrictions. He entered this password a long time ago and even tried to remember it 11 times, but to no avail.

He began to think and study everything possible ways password reset. It turned out that in any iPhone or iPad the password for restrictions can be reset in two ways:

Restore iPad in iTunes (everything is erased)
Change password manually (all information remains)

In general, Afanasy performed a restoration in iTunes and sold his empty iPad 2, which no longer had any applications or passwords.

But sometimes there are situations when forgetful iPhone or iPad users do not want to lose information when resetting the restriction password. First, they wander around the Internet looking for the standard default password, then they try to remember what password they set for the restrictions; if they still don’t remember, then they come here and read these instructions.

As a result of our experiments, we came to the conclusion that find out forgotten code will not work, but you can reset the restrictions password (by changing it to your own) on any iPhone, iPad or iPod. This can be done both with and without it, both in the old iOS 5.1 firmware and in the new iOS 7.

Resetting the restrictions password on an iPhone or iPad without a jail

As an experiment, we put a password for restrictions in a device without jailbreak with iOS firmware 7 and try to reset it without losing information.

To conduct the experiment we will need:

iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without jail with 7th (or other) firmware
Computer with and program
Standard USB cable
A little care

All actions performed to reset the password for restrictions are similar to the previously discussed instruction - “”.

1. We connect our iPhone or iPad, we connect the iPod touch, to the computer using USB cable and launch iTunes

2. In iTunes, to avoid further confusion, we deleted all previously made backups (iTunes - Settings - Devices).

3. After deleting the backup copies, here in iTunes we find our device, to do this, right-click on the iPhone or iPod and select – Create a backup copy. All this happens in the left sidebar, if you don’t have it in iTunes, then.

Changing a forgotten restrictions password to a new one

The backup has been created, now using the iBackupBot program we will reset Old Password, replacing it with a new one. We launch iBackupBot, the shortcut for which appeared on the computer desktop immediately after installation. We see in the program our only backup copy, in it we need to find the file com.apple.springboard.plist, it is located in the following path: System Files / HomeDomain / Library / Preferences.

If you cannot find this file yourself, then use the iBackupBot search.

Once you find the com.apple.springboard.plist file, we recommend saving a copy of it (right mouse click - Export Selected item) just in case.

Double-click on the found file, select Cancel in the registration window that appears, and proceed to editing.

Scroll down and look for a place to insert our new restrictions password. We inserted our code between the commands indicated in the picture, i.e. after the closing tag (above which ContryCode and ru). If you don’t have anything similar, you can paste the code at the very bottom of the file, before the two closing tags And .

The embed code looks like this:

SBParentalControlsPIN
0000

The four zeros indicated at the bottom of the code are our new restrictions password, which we can use upon successful completion of our actions.

After the code is inserted, you need to save the edited file; to do this, you can click on the floppy disk in the upper left corner or Ctrl + S (for Windows users). After successfully saving the appended com.apple.springboard.plist file, you can close the iBackupBot program and open iTunes again.

In iTunes, we need to restore our device (iPhone, iPad or iPod) using an edited backup copy. To do this, in the iTunes program, click on our device and in the General tab, in the Backups section, click the button - Restore from copy. Select our only copy and click – Restore.

After completion iPhone recovery(and in our case, the iPod) will reboot. Now you can check whether the old forgotten restrictions password has been reset, to do this, launch the Settings - General - Restrictions application and enter our new password: 0000. If you did everything correctly, the new password will work and you will see the restrictions menu. If the new password of four zeros does not work, it means you did something wrong, in which case we read carefully and try again. Well, for now we’ll tell you about an easier way to reset the restriction password for iPhone, iPod and iPad tablets with completed jail.

Changing a forgotten restriction password on an iPad with jailbreak

If you have forgotten the restrictions password, but your device has it enabled, then resetting the password can be much faster and easier. You don’t need a computer or iTunes for this, you will need:

iPhone, iPad or iPod with Jail
Installed

The advantage of this method is that there is no need to spend a long time making backup copies and restoring. Just launch iFile.

Follow the following path directly in the device: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences look for our file in this directory com.apple.springboard.plist, click on it and select – Text Editor.

We see the code; to start editing it, click the Edit button at the top.

And according to the principle described above (in the method without Jell), insert a magic code into it that will change the forgotten password for restrictions in your iPad or other device to four zeros. The main thing is not to make mistakes when inserting the code. Then in the upper right corner click – Save and confirm with the button – Ready.

Voila, go to the restrictions settings and check our new restrictions password, which we placed to replace the forgotten one. What code and where to insert is shown on the screenshots and described in the first method. The two methods of resetting the restriction password discussed today can be used on iPad, iPhone and iPod, and all data should be preserved.

After you go into the restrictions settings using four zeros, you can disable the restrictions password or change it to a new one that you will never forget. See you friends, train your memory!

Apple products delight their fans with a variety of useful options. One of them - restriction of functions - allows you to limit any functionality on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch. This may be necessary if children or people who are far from the technical subtleties that Apple’s brainchildren are rich in have access to. During established restrictions will keep the settings intact, prohibiting deletion existing programs or install new ones, and will also block access to selected applications on the device.

Function restrictions are password protected. Using passwords on various electronic devices is commonplace. It’s already so familiar that the number of passwords stored in our heads is quite large. And if someone, without further ado, uses one password for all occasions, then prudent people who prefer to play it safe, inventively pore over each password. Remembering them is not an easy task, and if the password is not written down anywhere, then there is a high risk of simply forgetting it.

Girl's memory

If it does happen that the password for limiting functions has been lost, and access to the system is necessary, then there is a completely legal way to regain lost power. However, before you begin the manipulations, you need to decide whether the device has been jailbroken or not.

Without violence against the system

If the iPhone (iPad, iPod) has not been subject to outside interference (jailbreaking), then it is possible to change the restrictions. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to restore a forgotten combination of numbers.

Task #1: Disable the Find My iPad button

To do this, go to menu - Settings - iCloud and uncheck the corresponding item. Complete the request - enter the password for your Apple ID and the desired function will be disabled.

Task #2: Create a backup copy

Connect your device to desktop computer or laptop and create a copy (you will need it for later recovery) in iTunes. A complete backup copy will be stored on your personal computer.

Task No. 3: improve Backup

Download the utility iBackupBot, it can be found in, in particular on the official website, and install it on your computer. This program will be able to bring order to the Backup settings by changing everything necessary in text file, which will allow you to correct your lost password.
Launch the installed program, wait until it processes the copy you created, and then go to the menu: “current backup” - system files /HomeDomian/library/preferences. You will need a file called " com.apple.springboard.plist“- changes need to be made to it.
If you do not often perform such manipulations, then just in case, make a backup copy of this file.
Between two tags And write two lines SBParentalControlsPIN
0000
Instead of “0000” you can enter any other combination - this is your new password.
Save the file, now you can close it.

Task #4: Restore your iPad from a previously created backup

Enter the menu: iTunes has a special button called “restore from copy.”
Select the backup you need (task No. 2 created it) and click the “restore” button. This process may take several minutes and will be displayed in the corresponding window " iPad recovery from backup."
On iPad screen At this time, the sign “recovery in progress” hangs.
After all operations are completed, the device should reboot.
Go to the “Settings/Basic/Restrictions” menu and in the password window, enter the same four-digit digital combination that you specified at the stage of task No. 3. If you wish, you can change the password again or remove it altogether.

By the way:

− If the “find iPad” function is inactive and you can’t disable it, you can try another way:

Disable .
Visit the official website www.icloud.com/#find.
Enter your Apple ID and password when prompted and disable the desired function (your iDevice will be offline).

− If for some reason you were unable to change your password, then try repeating these steps again more carefully.

Modified version

If you, at your own peril and risk, jailbroken, then changing the set and safely forgotten restriction password can be much easier. You don't need it, all the necessary manipulations can be done using your Apple device.

Launch the iFile menu on your device.
Find the file with the same name that was listed for the iPad without jailbreak (“com.apple.springboard.plist”).
Feel free to select “text editor” - “edit”.
Go back to the iPad password recovery method without jailbreak and copy the code provided there.
Paste the code into the edited file and do the rest: save and close the corrected file.
Check if your attempt is successful: enter the restrictions menu and set the new password. If the system listens to you, then you did everything right.

If you are afraid of forgetting your password, write it down, but keep the notes in a place inaccessible to strangers. And also, try to associate the password with some digital combination, but it’s better if it’s not your date of birth or apartment number.

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Have you set a restrictions password on your iPhone? Let's look at 2 ways to bypass this code!

You needed to set restrictions on some programs in your phone or reset your phone to factory settings, for which you find in “ settings" chapter " Restrictions". But to continue, the iPhone asks you to enter 4 digits "Restrictions Password".
Most ordinary users are sincerely surprised and cannot remember either the numbers or the moment of setting this password. What to do in such a situation and are there ways to bypass the password? Or will you have to live without access to setting Restrictions?

I hasten to inform you that there is a way!

Remember that this code was installed by the user himself when he first opened the restrictions settings!!!

1 Method. Removing the password.

If you spend firmware recovery, then you can delete this password. Let me remind you how to do this:

To a computer that has installed program iTunes, connect the device
In iTunes we find the icon "Restore" and press. At iOS recovery The restrictions password is deleted.

This method has a significant disadvantage - All information from your phone is deleted along with the password!!!
Of course, now you've thought about restoring your data from your latest backup. But remember that the backup copy was most likely created when set password, which means that by restoring the backup you will also get your password back.
So this method works quite well if the information on your device is not important to you, and this happens extremely rarely.

2 Method. Let's find out the code.

It is possible to find out the code without resorting to the help of your memory. To do this you need to use a special program.
If you find a backup of your device on your computer with the required password, you can rejoice! The program will be able "pull out" treasured numbers from this backup copy. If you don't have a backup, I recommend creating one immediately using iTunes.
Next step - installation of the program. You need to follow the link and download the appropriate operating system, version PinFinder programs. You can download it

Then we just need to launch the program, and after a while we will see the forgotten numbers on the screen.
Now you can remember your password and use it in the future. But just in case, remember that there is such an easy-to-use and useful program.

Any questions? Here are the answers to some of them: