Forget Your iPhone Password? Here's How to Fix

Password is an effective and essential way for iPhone users to protect personal privacy. But if we don't use our iPhone for a long time, we may forget the password. It is the quite frustrating thing for us to forget all kinds of passwords, which means that we need to waste a lot of time to find them back or reset a new password. Especially, forgetting iPhone password will affect our daily life and works. Therefore, it is important for you to know how to reset iPhone password in quick ways. Here we introduce three ways to help you reset your iPhone password.

1. Using iTunes

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer that your iPhone has trusted with a USB cable.
Step 2. Launch iTunes. If you’ve synced your iPhone with iTunes, then no “enter password” is required.
Step 3. iTunes will automatically sync your iPhone and create a backup file. If it doesn’t, you should sync your iTunes and create a backup file manually by in the Summary window.
Step 4. In the Summary window, you can see the option “Restore iPhone”. Click it and follow prompts to choose the latest iTunes backup to restore your iPhone.
Step 5. After the restoration process is complete, your passcode will be erased and all your data will be restored from your backup. You will now be able to access your iPhone without any passcode. And you can set your new password on iPhone.

Note: If you have synced your iPhone with iTunes before you forgot your iPhone password, you can reset your iPhone by using iTunes. Otherwise, you have to reset iPhone password with Recovery Mode mentioned below.

2.  Using iCloud Find My iPhone

Step 1. Go to icloud.com and log in with your Apple ID and password on your computer.
Step 2. Click Find My iPhone. Then click All Devices at the top of your browser window.
Step 3. Select your iPhone from all the devices listed. Click Erase iPhone to erase your iPhone along with its passcode.
Step 4. Use the Setup Assistant on your device to restore the most recent backup of your device.
Step 5. After the restoration process is finished, your passcode will be erased and all your data will be restored from your iCloud backup. You will now be able to access your iPhone without any passcode.

Note: Before you use the method, you should ensure that Find My iPhone app is ON.

3. Using Recovery Mode

If the above two methods don't work well, you can try resetting iPhone password by using Recovery Mode.

Step 1. Disconnect all cables from your iPhone and turn it off.
Step 2. Press and hold the Home button and connect your device to iTunes. If your iPhone does not turn on, please turn it on manually.
Step 3. Continue holding the Home button until you see the Connect to iTunes screen. iTunes will remind you that it has detected your iPhone in recovery mode.
Step 4. Click OK. The Summary tab in iTunes appears. Click “Restore iPhone” and restore your iPhone.

Note: Recovery Mode will erase all your data and passcode from your iPhone, resetting it to factory defaults. Thus, you’ll have a brand new iPhone without any personal data after you reset iPhone password with Recovery Mode. 

4. How to Create A New Password?

If you remember your current iPhone password and you just want to change  a new password, you can finish it with ease. 

Step 1. Go to Setting > Touch ID & Passcode (iOS 9/8/7) or Passcode Lock (iOS 6),

Step 2. Enter the current password and tap Change Passcode. Then enter the new passcode.

Conclusion:

Resetting iPhone password is actually not complicated if you follow the steps mentioned above. If you have synced your iPhone with iTunes before or if you have enabled your Find My iPhone on, you'd better try the first two methods. Since Recovery Mode will erase all your data from iPhone after resetting, please consider carefully whether you need to use this method to reset password on iPhone.