Where is my passcode lock setting?

As I understand it it should be a setting under "settings" - "general" that says PASSCODE LOCK. There is no such setting at all in my iPhone 3G!? I have the latest firmware and not jailbroken - everything is in order. What can I do, I tried to restore and so on... but nothing. Thanks in advance for any solution or hint on the subject!

I already did this though, but perhaps someone else that have the same problem and also found a solution (and reads this) can come with a solution. Thanks anyway for taking your time! Cheers!

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HT200238 I want to create my profile so the passcode lock setting is inaccessible on the iPads I deploy.

I want to create my profile so the passcode lock setting is inaccessible on the iPads I deploy. In other words, I do not want users to be able to set the passcode on our iPads. Is there a way to do this?

I seem to remember the discussion suggesting to use the Restrictions passcode to prevent users from accessing the passcode - parental controls. I may not remember it correctly. A passcode must be set, then the restrictions passcode is used to set controls on the user. Putting the device into supervisor mode then locks it permanently. That's sort of how I remember it.
Found the discussion link: How do you keep users from resetting ipad

Passcode Lock setting

Hi,
In the ipod touch manual it says:
Set how long before your passcode is required
Choose General > Passcode Lock > Require Passcode, then select how long iPod touch
can be locked before you need to enter a passcode to unlock it.
What does that mean??
Thanks

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Checking from app whether a passcode lock is set for Ipad

Hi,
Since my app would be dealing with sensitive data of the user, I would like to know if there is a way I can check from my app whether there is a Passcode Lock set for the Ipad.
The reason I need to check this is because say if the user has in the app some information and then keeps it on the table and goes out for a couple of minutes. The ipad/iphone by default, goes to standby mode. If a passcode lock had been set, only when the correct passcode is entered, would anyone be able to use the ipad. This would provide an additional security measure to prevent any passerby to view the sensitive data from the app.
So basically, I would like my app to check whether the passcode lock is set and if not prompt the user to do it.
Is this possible and if so, would any one be able to point me in the right direction?

thanks for the link..
well, that still does not give me what I need.. I have implemented that functionality already in my app..
Since this is a client requirement, I need to make sure whether it is possible or not.. so again, I need to check from my app, whether there is a passcode set in the ipad ( so that only when the passcode is typed, will the ipad be unlocked) . if a passcode lock is not set in the ipad, then I should be able to tell the user to do it...

15-minute passcode lock self-defeating

I've learned that having an Exchange account (apparently only Exchange 2007, not 2003) results in a diminished set of choices regarding the time interval before the passcode lock sets, and that is consistent with my experience: the four-hour option was available when I had only an Exchange 2003 account installed on the device, and this shortened to 15 minutes after installing an Exchange 2007 account. In my case, it is not a matter of an employer making the requirement: I am the employer, and I am using, in this case, Microsoft Business Online Productivity Services--i.e., hosted Exchange vs. in-house. I have not yet found a setting to override this ridiculously short interval on the Exchange server, but at least I know where to look, and it would not seem to be anywhere on my devices. The fact that I can choose not to use a passcode lock altogether demonstrates that this is not a security requirement imposed by the Exchange server, just a more limited range of options. The option not to use the passcode lock would not be available if it were a true security issue for Exchange, one presumes. I don't recall, by the way, such behavior in Windows smartphones I've had in the past.
Is anyone else finding the 15-minute passcode lock on the iPad and iPhone as annoying and dangerous as I am? I have disabled the lock altogether as a result. It is terribly annoying to have only 15 minutes to set my iPad aside before having to unlock it, and it renders the iPhone downright dangerous in the car--and I'm talking about turning iTunes on or off, or simply checking a map. I never talk or text while driving.
I thought four hours was a reasonable (for me) compromise between security and usability, but someone (Apple? Microsoft?) has decided we all need more protection than that and has reduced the intervals to a mere 15-minute maximum. Now I have no other security than wiping my device remotely if it falls out of my possession. The setting screen tells us that "shorter times are more secure," as if it were scolding us. I would have even greater security if I had never bought the devices, but that is beside the point.
I don't understand why users should not be able to decide for themselves the degree of passcode security they desire and need on their devices.

Rocka wrote:
Common... Go to **** with security, there's not much security regarding iOS anyway. This was a convenient setting for various reasons, like locking the device overnight so kids can't play with my iPad in the morning.
Unlocking it everytime I need to use my camera (Camera+), check email, or write something is a nonsense. So I understand those resulting in NO LOCK AT ALL.
Pitty, having it set for an hour or two was a great "semi-secure" thing. Now there's nothing.
Why the heck is it related to Exchange? Is this some kind of Gates' revenge or what?
And what's the point in having a full choice from 1-2-3-4-5 minutes on the iPhone - what's the security difference between 3 and 5 minutes? Can anybody tell?
Regarding the car conversations - those who conversate while driving are dangerous? How can we eliminate in-car conversations then? Forbid couples and families driving together?
The exchange feature allows the owner of the exchange server (and thus the one who controls the exchange accounts hosted on it) the ability to secure their empolyees accounts. Since anything their employees house on the company's exchange server is the property of the company, they get to set the security policy as they see fit. Exchange then pushes out a security certificate over the air that overrides the default security of the device's OS and emposes the corporate policy. So no, it has nothing to do with Bill Gates, it has to do with a system that is primarily geared towards enterprise and corporate deployment, and enabling the owners of those systems to empose their own security standards and practices on devices used to connect to their corporate servers. It also, btw, gives them the ability to remotely wipe your exhange account off the device at any time.
I've never worked for any company that allows empolyees to use personal cell phones for access to company accounts without using some means of imposing security on the connecting devices - Exchange allows them a simple and standard way to do that.
A passcode lock on an iOS device offers at least as much security as possible on any smart phone. If employed with reasonable time out settings to avoide giving a theif open access, it does offer good protection against anyone actually gaining access to information on the device. They can always restore the device as new, wiping it clean in the process, and go about using it as theirs, but your information at least, has been secured.
It is certainly more than something to merely keep the kids out. If you use online banking or other financial apps, don't want someone reading your email or getting the addresses of all your family and friends, keep work documents or other confidential information, then you should be using a passcode lock on your device, with a fairly short default timeout. Complain about the inconvenience all you wish, but don't disable the security passcode and then complain when the device is stolen and someone uses the infromation to aid them in stealing your identity, spam'ing your contacts, sending your personal photo's to anyone and everyone, posting your personal information on web sites, or whatever else they may do with full access to your iPhone and its contents.
To my mind, it would be akin to leaving the doors to your house unlocked and wide open, because you find the act of having to dig keys out of your pocket everytime you come home too inconvenient. Of course, you are free to do that too, but then don't complain when someone walks away with all your personal items and information. Or perhaps a better analogy would be, don't complain when someone walks in to your house, sits down at your computer (which of course you have left logged in, or have set to autologin every time) and happily reads your email, copies down your online passwords, goes into your accounts and generally makes your life far, far more "inconvenient" then it ever would have been had you just logged out, and locked the door.
There is a reason why identity theft is a multi-billion dollar a year crime category - so many people make it so easy for their personal information to be compromised that a world full of unsecured smart phones and tablets is a crook's dream world, like a kid in a candy shop.

Change Passcode lock from numeric to alphabetic.

I have an iPhone 3G and have a passcode lock set.Recently I changed the password to a 4 numeric one and now I want to go back to an alphabetic password with more than 4 characters since it feels more safe.But now I cannot change it into anything other than a 4 numeric one.Searched all the posts in the forum and couldn't find a solution.Can anyone help me please.Tried the resetting option,didn't help.
Tahnks in advance.

The only way I know to do what you want is to download this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL851
And then:
# Click on the Passcode tab, and check Require Passcode on Device. Check the various options/restrictions you want to enable.
# When you are all done, click the Share button at the top of the window. An email will open with a configuration profile attached. Send the email to your iPhone.
# Open Mail on your iPhone, and open the message with the configuration profile attached. Click on the profile attachment, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the profile and set your new long passcode.

HT204407 In Finf My Friends, I have to sign in every time. Where do I find the "passcode lock"? I don't have a "settings screen

Where do I find the "passcode lock" in fimd my friends. I can't locate the "setting" section of the app.

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I accidentally put a passcode lock on my iPhone and I forgot what I set for it, is there a way to take it off without accessing the phone? I have restored my phone but it doesn't work, is there anybody that could help me please?

I accidentally put a passcode lock on my iPhone and I forgot what I set for it, is there a way to take it off without accessing the phone? I have restored my phone but it doesn't work, is there anybody that could help me please?

You can't "accidentally" put a passcode on any iPhone...its a multi-step process. Further, restoring an iPhone will remove the passcode, as the passcode is not included in an iPhone backup.
Are you sure you're talking about the phone passcode & not something else...like the "Restrictions" passcode?

How to set Passcode lock time in iOS 7.02?

In upgrading my Sprint, iPhone 5s from iOS 7.0 to 7.0.2, when go to Settings/General/Passcode-Fingerprint/Require Passcode, it is now set on "Immediately", when, in 7.0, I had it set for 15 minutes.
When I touch the word "Immediately", the screen shows the word "Immediately", followed by a checkmark. Below the word "Immediately", is a text line stating "Shorter times are more secure." However, when I touch the word "Immediately", the drop down menu that previously appeared under Version 7.0, which provided a choice of Passcode lock times, no longer appears, so I cannot change the time settings for the Passcode lock function.
Is the choice of time settings willfully no longer available, or is this a bug? If a bug, is there a workaround?
Thank you!!

I found an answer, as I had the same issue. And of course, like many things Apple, it's fairly simple.
The issue arises when you have Touch ID enabled. Once you disable Touch ID, you will then have choices of longer periods before a passcode is required. Of course then you don't have Touch ID, but mine rarely works anyway. My skin is too dry and it fails constantly.
There is a good explanation here: http://danstillman.com/2013/09/30/touch-id-and-require-passcode-immediately

How to set passcode lock expirey date

Hello,
I am having problems with the "passcode lock" on my iphone 4S that it only lasts 24 hours before it needs resetting. In the "passcode lock" function in General Settings I cannot select either "Turn passcode off" or "Erase Data" The Exchange account associated with the phone has no password limitation set, does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks

I found an answer, as I had the same issue. And of course, like many things Apple, it's fairly simple.
The issue arises when you have Touch ID enabled. Once you disable Touch ID, you will then have choices of longer periods before a passcode is required. Of course then you don't have Touch ID, but mine rarely works anyway. My skin is too dry and it fails constantly.
There is a good explanation here: http://danstillman.com/2013/09/30/touch-id-and-require-passcode-immediately

For the Iphone 5C, can I set up a drawing for a passcode lock or is it just numbers?

For the Iphone 5C, can I set up a drawing for a passcode lock or is it just a number lock passcode

You can set up a 4-digit numerical passcode or a longer, complex password including letters and number. A pattern lock is not an option.

I have an iPod touch 2G and I can't set up a passcode lock. I hit "Turn Passcode on" and then enter the passcode I want. Then it brings me back to the Passcode Lock Screen, NOT turning on my passcode.

I hit "Turn Passcode on" and then enter the passcode I want. Then it brings me back to the Passcode Lock Screen, NOT turning on my passcode. Now this iPod touch is a gift from my family, used before me. I set up my iTunes account, but when i view my Apple account it's not showing up. Is this the reason my iPod isnt working? Please help.

The users guide says:
Passcode Lock
By default, iPod touch doesn’t require you to enter a passcode to unlock it.
Set a passcode: Choose General > Passcode Lock and enter a 4-digit passcode, then enter the passcode again to verify it. iPod touch then requires you to enter the passcode to unlock it or to display the passcode lock settings.
Turn passcode lock off: Choose General > Passcode Lock, enter your passcode, and tap Turn Passcode Off, then enter your passcode again.
Change the passcode: Choose General > Passcode Lock, enter your passcode, and tap Change Passcode. Enter your passcode again, then enter and reenter your new passcode.
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

If my iPhone is stolen and the thief shut the phone down, I wouldn't be able to locate it anymore. Is it possible to disable the possibility to shut down the phone when a passcode lock is set up?

If my iPhone is stolen and the thief shut the phone down, I wouldn't be able to locate it anymore.
Is it possible to disable the possibility to shut down the phone when a passcode lock is set up?
enable prohibition shutdown option, with out a jail break tweek
Apple should think about this, if not already in the new IOS 7

No.
The battery will run out sooner or later anyway, even if you could prevent shutdown.
iOS 7 includes a feature that prevents anyone wiping and then re-setting up the phone without your AppleID and password.

Is it possible to disable the possibility to shut down the iPhone when a passcode lock is set up?

If my iPhone is stolen and the thief shut it down I wouldn't be able to locate it anymore.
Is it possible to disable de possibility to shut down the iPhone when a passcode lock is set up?

That is true, and if it is restored to factory settings, and so on. Find My...works when a device is connected to the internet and logs itself in as long as it has not been "sanitized" so it is not recognized.

Can I prohibit students from setting a Passcode Lock in Apple Configurator with iOS 7?

I manage 120 iPads at a high school and am running into an issue with the iOS 7 update. Students now have the ability to go into settings and set a Passcode Lock which will be a hassle once they realize this. Does anyone know if Configurator has the ability to prohibit students from having the ability to set this? They also have the ability to set restrictions codes but I'm assuming I'll have to go into every iPad and set this myself to cut that off before it becomes a problem. I just can't find a way to do this for the screen lock code.

Sorry, but there still seems to be no way to block someone from setting a screenlock passcode.
Regards.

Where is my passcode lock setting?

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