Since about iOS 8, the restrictions PIN itself is no longer stored in an iPhone backup. How to recover your iPhone Restrictions passcode (iOS 11 and lower) Here are instructions from Apple for how to turn on encrypted iTunes backups. If you do not see Screen Time passcode as an option, please make sure your backup was made with iTunes backup encryption turned on. (I've got the same combination on my luggage!) Your iPhone Screen Time passcode will show in the right column. Select 'Screen Time Passcode' from the center column. How to recover a forgotten iPhone or iPad Screen Time passcode:Ĭlick on the backup of your iPhone/iPad in the left column of Decipher Backup Browser. The passcode is only stored in if your backup is made with encryption turned on, so as part of recovering your Screen Time passcode, you'll need to make sure your backup is encrypted. Download Decipher Backup Browser and make a backup of the iPhone/iPad if you don't have a backup already. In iOS 12, the Restrictions passcode was used to set up the new iOS 12 Screen Time passcode.

How to recover your iPhone or iPad Screen Time passcode (iOS 12) Decipher Backup Browser can read the passcode if it was set before upgrading to iOS 13. Update January 16, 2020: As of iOS 13, the Screen Time is no longer stored in the backed-up keychain, so Decipher Backup Browser cannot show a Screen Time passcode set in iOS 13. Decipher Backup Browser has been updated to also show the Screen Time passcode from an encrypted iPhone/iPad backup. Update October 9, 2018: As of iOS 12, the Restrictions passcode setting has changed to the iOS 12 Screen Time passcode and the storage of the passcode has changed. So here is my contribution to the world of forgotten iPhone Restrictions / Screen Time passcode tutorials. Half of the descriptions were also pretty darn hard to read, even for me, and I work on iPhone data for my job! They probably worked several years ago, but not in iOS 10, iOS 11, or iOS 12. We then waded through tons of webpages with totally outdated information about how to find out the restrictions passcode. Yesterday she asked me:ĭo you know how to reset a restrictions passcode? I seem to have forgotten it. My sister-in-law asks some of the best iPhone questions.

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