Question: I didn't set a passcode
Just got my iPad 2. It was working fine. Left it alone for a few minutes and now it wants a passcode. I didn't set a passcode! My Apple ID and passcode don't work! Help.
Connect to iTunes and set up your iPad as a new device. I don't have a clue as to why your iPad is requesting a passcode when you didn't create one to begin with. But after setting up your iPad as a new device and turn off passcode in settings, so this can't happen again, unless you do want to use a passcode (not a bad thing you know as it will stop someone from using your Ipad if they get it).
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I didn't set a passcode on my ipad but it is now locked and is requiring a passcode. What do I do?
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Connect the iOS device to your computer and try to make a backup
iOS: How to back up
Then restore via iTunes. The iOS device will be erased. Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode if necessary to allow the restore.
If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
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For how to restore:
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
To restore from backup see:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store -
Didn't set up passcode on ipad now I'm locked out
Upgraded to the new IOS7 last night and skipped setting up passcode. Now I'm locked out
Go into Recovery Mode per the instructions here. You WILL lose all of your data (game scores, etc,) but, for the most part, you can redownload apps and music without being charged again. Also, if you have IOS-7, read this.
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My ipad has locked. but i didn't set a passcode
I have just set my ipad up on itunes. then after i turned it back on it asked for a passcode. i haven't set one up, so can't access my ipad. What do i need to do to get the passcode?
Help!iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school enviroment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
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can you guys please help me find my iPod because i lost it a week ago and i cant find it I've been trying really hard to find it but i cant cause i didn't set up find my phone before i lost it so my question is can you help me someway or somehow because my iPod i love it i would always take pictures with my friends and i have all my memories in it so i don't know where it is for all i know it could be on the street getting ready to get ran over because the last time i ever saw it was on last Sunday when i went to my cousins house when we were leaving i grabbed something to eat then i sat at the table then i left but i swear i had it in my pocket when i left but i didn't so i asked my cousin if he could look for it and he said sure so he started looking for it but didn't find anything and so i lost it sense and i asked my dad if i could get a new one and he said in a couple of years but i want that iPod back it has all my memories in it it's really special to me and i'm really desperate so please help me someway somehow anyway just help me please i don't know what else to do but beg for someone to help me because I've tried looking for it in my car in my room in my coats and nothing i tried looking for it on the website find my iPhone/iPod/iPad and it didn't help so please help me i beg of you if you are reading this and don't care you really are heartless because a little 12 year old girl can't find the most precious thing she got from her father 1 year ago and if you are reading this and you have a heart please help me find it if you do want to help me find it****
<Personal Information Edited by Host>You are not addressing Apple here. We are all just users like yourself
lost/stolen
No app on the iOS device is required.
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod/iPhone/iPad on the iOS device in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected or cellular data is on and connected for, on a computer browser go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up or continue to show off-line.
- You can also wipe/erase the iOS device and have the device play a sound via iCloud.
iCloud: Erase your device
iCloud: Use Lost Mode
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the device and report to police and carrier if iPhone or cellular iPad
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the erase (it erases it) using it unless you had iOS 7 or later on the device. With iOS 7 or later, one has to enter the Apple ID and password to restore the device.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number -
A passcode screen has appeared, but i didn't set one up
the 'enter passcode' screen is blocking me from using my ipad. i didn't set it up, what happened and how can I disable it?
i use gmail on my iphone and ipad, but neither device has ever locked me out like what just happened with my ipad. i was just trying to access my apple id to setup icloud on apple.com when i was having difficultywith my primary email. so i attempted to change my id to the gmail acct, and now this happened. i don't know if there is any connection, but it is strange that it happened afterwards. if i restore from itunes, will i lose my ipad data?
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cut on my ipod and it has a passcode on it that i didn't set how do i remove it
What does "cut on my ipod" mean?
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I forgot my security password and didn't set up a rescue email address. I tried calling apple but they tried charging me to reset the questions. Is there an easier and cheaper way to reset them?
Probably not; if you want, you can try using this form, but will likely be told to phone instead.
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HT1212 my apple id is asking security questions that i didn't set up
my apple is asking questions that i didn't set up
The Three Best Alternatives for Security Questions and Rescue Mail
1. Use Apple's Express Lane.
Go to https://expresslane.apple.com ; click 'See all products and services' at the
bottom of the page. In the next page click 'More Products and Services, then
'Apple ID'. In the next page select 'Other Apple ID Topics' then 'Forgotten Apple
ID security questions' and click 'Continue'. Please be patient waiting for the return
phone call. It will come in time depending on how heavily the servers are being hit.
2. Call Apple Support in your country: Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support or
Apple ID- Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security. Ask to speak to
Account Security.
3. Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions.
How to Manage your Apple ID: Manage My Apple ID -
HT201303 asking for answers to security questions that I didn't set up
To change my password it is asking for answers to security questions that I didn't set up.
If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) set up on your account then the steps half-way down this page give you a reset link for the questions on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your questions) then you will need to contact iTunes Support / Apple to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps half-way down the HT5312 link above to add a rescue email address for potential future use -
My iPhone 4 IOS 6.1.3 is locked with a passcode of which I did not setup on my phone. How do I eliminate the passcode so I can use my phone?
If you did not set the passcode, then someone else with physical access to the phone did. It can not set itself.
Plug it into your computer running iTunes and restore it. -
HT1620 Why is it asking me for a pass code and I didn't set one?
Why is it asking me for a pass code and I didn't set one up. This never happen before when I updated to the most recent IOS on my Ipad2?
It is most likely asking for your Apple ID password, but that is just a guess.
Then again as KarenSelena says if someone set a passcode without actually telling you (maybe a Settings -> General -> Restrictions passcode), that might be why you are getting a passcode request. -
We have an iPad 2 running ios 6.something - I can't check that right now because we can't seem to exit "guided access". I was playing Clumsy Ninja when it froze. I didn't know about forcing closed or removing an app from the recent bar yet at the time, so I was looking through settings for some kind of intuitively obvious admin tool for shutting down a jammed app - to no avail. Then I reopened the game and tried different things: holding the home button down, pressing the home button multiple times. When I did that, "guided access" launched. It informed me that it had deactivated the buttons, and asked me if I wanted to shut down parts of screen. No solution in that, so I attempted to exit GA at which point ipad requested a passcode - I never set a general passcode or a GA passcode, so I have no idea what to put in. I have tried rebooting by means of Home and Power buttons - it reopens Clumsy Ninja with GA active.
Is there a default "Guided Access" passcode that would be in place since I haven't set one?Nope . I was the only one using it and I did not set a passcode . That would have been a red flag for me . We don't have it configured to require a passcode for logon and I would not have created one intentionally .
Thanks for responding Diavonex . -
Is there anyway to set a passcode for my iPhone/iPad, but prevent the device from being disabled?
My wife and I have iPhones, and also have an iPad. We also have three children, and recently they have been trying to guess our passcodes so that they can watch videos and play games. Trouble is, after 10 attempts, the device will disable for 60 seconds, and then if the 11th attempt is wrong, the device will disable for 5 minutes, etc. My iPad is currently disabled for 60-minutes. Grrr.
Is there anyway to set a passcode to keep the children out, and yet prevent the device from being disabled on successive attempts? I realise that this feature is there to protect our devices from brute-force attacks, but we are being penalised, in that our devices become disabled for a period of time.Well, so you have to ask: Is the problem your iPad or your children? Another question: If they're not to watch videos or play games, then why are they on the iPad in the first place?
Obviously you already know the answer to your question; there is no way to set it up the way that you want to. If you nonetheless feel that you should be able to do that, then put together your best case for it and make your wishes known directly to apple via their established Feedback links:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Posting here is no substitute for doing that -
Help me! Please
Just been on holiday and one of our party lost his iPhone 4s.He didn't set it up on iCloud.He has it set to vibrate and it goes straight into voice mail. Does anyone know if there is a way of locating it without iCloud/MobileMe?
We do know his number which is a bonus I suppose
Cheers for any help
Boz1070Sorry, unless Find My Phone was turned on & activated on that phone, there is no way to locate it other than physically looking for it.
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