How do you unlock a phone when you dont know the password?

how do you unlock a phone when you dont know the password?

Connect in recovery mode and restore, you'll get the option to reset the passcode during this process:
iOS: Unable to update or restore and iPhone and iPod touch: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen
If you cannot remember the passcode, you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and resync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software.

Similar Messages

  • HT5625 how do we set up the i phone when we dont know the pass worrd and nether does the former owner

    how do we set up the i phone when we dont know the pass word and nether does the former owner?

    See if this helps:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1212
    ... but if neither you nor the former owner knows the passcode, I believe you have a serious problem.  Are you sure you didn't just acquire a stolen iPhone?

  • HT4137 how do i unlock an ipod but i dont know the passcode

    how do i unlock an ipod but i dont know the passcode

    Locked Out, Forgot Lock or Restrictions Passcode, or Need to Restore Your Device: Several Alternative Solutions
    A
    1. iOS- Forgotten passcode or device disabled after entering wrong passcode
    2. iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen
    3. Restoring iPod touch after forgotten passcode
    4. What to Do If You've Forgotten Your iPhone's Passcode
    5. iOS- Understanding passcodes
    6. iTunes 10 for Mac- Update and restore software on iPod, iPhone, or iPad
    7. iOS - Unable to update or restore
    Forgotten Restrictions Passcode Help
                iPad,iPod,iPod Touch Recovery Mode
    You will need to restore your device as New to remove a Restrictions passcode. Go through the normal process to restore your device, but when you see the options to restore as New or from a backup, be sure to choose New.
    You can restore from a backup if you have one from BEFORE you set the restrictions passcode.
    Also, see iTunes- Restoring iOS software.

  • HT201328 how do i unlock my iphone4 when i reently chnaged the password and forget the new code

    How do I unlock my Iphone4 when I recently changed my password and forgot the new one?

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212

  • How can i delete an old profile off game center when i dont know the password?

    i set up an account on game center when i first got my old iphone and have since upgraded my iphone. i cant remeber the password for it and so cant log in. i cant seem to reset the password but when i play games i get a prompt telling me that no achievements will be saved until i log in. i have opened a new account on game center but still get the prompt from the old account!!! can anyone help?

    If your device is signed into an old iCloud ID that is an earlier version of the ID you want to sign in with, do the following:
    If you are using iMessage and FaceTime, make sure you are signed into these services with your current ID.  If they are signed into the old ID, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive and Settings>FaceTime, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with your current ID.
    Then temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID.  Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change.  (You should not have to verify the old email account so it doesn’t matter if you no longer have access to it.)  Now go to Settings>iCloud, turn off Find My iDevice and enter your current password when prompted (even though it prompts you for the password for your old ID).  Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll (unless you are using iCloud Photo Library).  When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out (or Delete Account if you are not running iOS 8) and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud).  Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address back to the way it was.  Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign back in with your current iCloud ID and password (your data will download back to your device).

  • HT1320 how do i unlock my ipod if i dont know the pass code

    i dont know my passcode and i need to get into my ipod

    Hello calebwhite50
    You would need to put your iPod touch into recovery mode and then use iTunes to restore it. Once the restore is complete and you have a backup, within iTunes or iCloud, you can put that back up back on without the passcode coming back.
    iOS: Forgotten passcode or device disabled after entering wrong passcode
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
    Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
    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.
    While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device. The device should turn on.
    Continue holding the Home button until you see the Connect to iTunes screen.
    iTunes will alert you that it has detected a device in recovery mode. Click OK, and then restore the device.
    Regards,
    -Norm G.

  • How do i actvate my ipod when i dont know the previous onwers number or anything

    i cant activate my ipod because i dont know anything of the previous owener please help

    You are running into
    iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7
    You either have to enter the ID and PW for the previous owner or get the previous owner to remove the device from their account
    Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account
    Otherwise you have a thin brick flashlight
    I recoment that yo contact the police since maybe the iPod was stolen or lost

  • Im signed into an icloud account on my phone and i dont know the password so i did another email to it and it still wont get off my phone.

    Im having a problem with my iCloud account. I had changed it to another account because i had forgotten its password and when i enter it it doesnt work. I tried to delete it off of my phone but it asks for the "Find My iPhone" and either Cancel Or Turn off and it asks for the password that i had forgotten. I had tried to get the password for te account reset but anything that i do it doesnt send me the iForgot recovery password.

    Hello, JillWalker. 
    You will need to remove your device from the Find My iPhone Activation Lock section of iCloud.com.  Once you have removed your device, process the restore again. 
    iOS 7: Mobile Device Management and Find My iPhone Activation Lock
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5927
    Cheers,
    Jason H. 

  • How do I unlock my phone if i dont remember the code?

    I am going back to an old phone and it is locked. I cant remember the code what do I do?

    Restore it from backup on the last computer the phone synced with, this will remove the passcode.

  • HT201210 How do you unlock an iPod when you've forgotten the password?

    How do you unlock an iPod when you've forgotten the password?

    Do as the manual says to do and restore the iphone.
    If you are unable to restore, then type "unable to restore" into the search bar at the top of this page by Support and read the resulting help article

  • HT201317 how do I unlock my phone when I forget the passcode?

    How do I unlock my phone when I forgot the passcode?

    Please see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1212

  • HT4946 how do i unlock my iPhone when its locked in the itune plug in mode?

    how do I unlock my iPhone when it is in the itune locked mode for updates, i powered out when i was updating

    Unfortunately once the iPhone is in that mode the best practice is to just restore the whole iPhone via iTunes.
    The iPhone is in recovery mode. So to get it out of recovery mode and restore through iTunes is all you got to do.
    Hope this helps

  • My Energy Saver option is locked - how do I unlock it? When I click on the lock, I can't make changes - it will not unlock.

    My Energy Saver option is locked - how do I unlock it? When I click on the lock, I can't make changes - it will not unlock. My passwords are disabled. I'm using iMac with the OS X Version 10.9.4. Many thanks.

    Maybe the following since I do not really understand what yo mean by click on the top part of the screen
    Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues - Apple Support

  • How do I deactivate a computer when I dont have the hardrive

    How do I deactivate a computer when I dont have the hardrive

    Hi Bob,
    In this case you can activate adobe apps on a new computer however you would need to follow the steps mentioned in the link below.
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/error-maxium-acitvation-exceeded.html
    Let us know for any further help.
    Regards,
    Ashish

  • HT201304 how do i unlock my restrictions if i have forgotten the password

    how do i unlock my restrictions if i've forgotten the password to unlock it?

    You can't. It wouldn't be a very good lock if you could get in without the 'key', would it?
    Read http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212 for your options.

Maybe you are looking for

  • Can't send photos

    Hi guys, I have Acer E3 liquid E380 with 1GB ram and 4GB internal storage it's from three.co.uk unlocked and phone is rooted the problem is when i want to send photo to someone and i choose take photo it brings me to camera and after i take photo it

  • How to set FK to column name only, after engineering

    Hi everyone, On Logical model I have 2 tables, first one is Clients T085CLI with CODCLI as PK, the second one is Contacts T085CTO with CODCTO as PK and CODCLI as FK. After doing the engineering on T085CTO I get the following names, CODCTO (PK) and T0

  • Unable to insert Drilldown charecteristics in report designer

    Hi All, When i am inserting report in report designer the drilldown charecteristics are not including into that, and at the same time it is showing msg like ' universal heirachies cannot inculde in to report designer' Can any one help me in this rega

  • PerfMon reporting dramatic disk access time increase on Oracle startup

    Hi, My oracle 10g (10.2.0.4) database is hosted on a windows 2003 server. The datafiles are stored on a RAID1 disk array, on a dedicated partition : currently 30 gigs free out of 180, wich should not be a concern unless i'm wrong, because the datafil

  • Exclude records in a parameter selection

    Post Author: bilbo CA Forum: General Hi, Is it possible to exclude records from a parameter selection field? Part of my record selection is: "NOT ({TABLE1.FIELD1} IN {?Exclude})" but my Exclude parameter obviously returns every record. Users need thi