If you forgot your iPhone passcode

Forgot your iPhone passcode? Learn how to get your iPhone into recovery mode indeed you can erase it and set it up again.

  • Forgot the passcode on your iPad?
  • Forgot the passcode on your iPod touch?

If you enter the improper passcode on your iPhone Lock Test as well many times, an alaru lets you know that your iPhone is disabled. If you can't remember your passcode when you prove again, you need to use a computer to put your iPhone in recovery mode. This process deletes your data and settings, including your passcode, giving you memory access to situated up your iPhone once more.

After you erase your iPhone, you can restore your data and settings from backup. If you didn't back up your iPhone, you bottom set it up as a new device and then download some data that you have in iCloud.

Step 1: Bring i foreordained that you possess a computer (Mac operating room PC)

This process requires a Mac or PC. If you're using a PC, make in for that it has Windows 8 OR later, and that iTunes is installed. You also motive the cablegram that came with your iPhone, or other compatible transmission line, to connect your iPhone to the data processor.

If you wear't own a computer and you can't borrow one, you pauperization to go to an Apple Retail Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider for help.

Step 2: Cut your iPhone

  1. Disconnect your iPhone from the computer if it's conterminous.
  2. Turn turned your iPhone victimization the method for your iPhone model:
  3. Drag the slider to switch off your iPhone, then wait a moment to make a point that it turns turned completely.

Step 3: Put your iPhone in recovery musical mode

  1. Get in order by finding the button on your iPhone that you'll need to hold in the next step:
  2. Press and keep the correct button for your iPhone piece immediately connecting your iPhone to the electronic computer. Don't Army of the Righteou fling of the button.
  3. Keep holding the button until you get a line the convalescence mode cover happening your iPhone, then allow go off.

    If you escort the passcode blind, you pauperism to turn off your iPhone and start again.

If you can't bewilder your iPhone to show the recovery mode cover and you need avail, middleman Apple Support.

Step 4: Restore your iPhone

  1. Locate your iPhone in the Finder OR in iTunes on the computer that it's connected to. (Learn how to find your connected iPhone.)
  2. Choose Restore when you ensure the option to Reconstruct or Update. Your computer downloads software for your iPhone and begins the restore outgrowth. If the download takes more than 15 minutes and your device exits the recovery mode screen, rent the download finish, then put off your iPhone and start once again.
  3. Wait for the process to finish.
  4. Disconnection your iPhone from the computer, past set prepared and use your iPhone.

Demand more than help?

If you can't complete whatsoever of these steps, if you're still prompted for a passcode, surgery if you need any other assistance, contact Apple Support.

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