forgot my 4 digit passcode on my IPad pro

If your iPad is disabled, or you have forgotten your iPad passcode, you’ll need to follow this process:

If you’ve forgotten the passcode on your iPad, or your iPad is disabled – Apple Support

You’ll need access to either a PC (with iTunes installed) or a Mac (with iTunes or Finder - as appropriate for the installed version of MacOS).

Download and use iTunes for Windows – Apple Support

Update to the latest version of iTunes – Apple Support

You may also need your AppleID and associated password. If these have also been forgotten, they can be recovered here:

https://iforgot.apple.com

To recover your credentials, you’ll need access to one of the following:

• Your primary email address mailbox that corresponds with your AppleID
• Any of the secondary/recovery email addresses that should be configured for your AppleID account
• Any of the trusted telephone numbers (fixed line or Cellular/Mobile) that are associated with your AppleID

Unless you AppleID account has not been fully/correctly configured, or has been seriously neglected, recovery of the AppleID and password should not be difficult.

More information about recovery of your AppleID:

If you forgot your Apple ID - Apple Support

More information about recovery of your AppleID password:

If you forgot your Apple ID password - Apple Support

When you recover access to your credentials, you would be well advised to log-in to your AppleID account from a web browser - and verify/update any email addresses and trusted telephone numbers:

https://appleid.apple.com

If you forgot the passcode on your iPad, or your iPad is disabled - Apple Support

Why is it that, for years and years now, each and every question which is clearly referring to a forgotten PIN (a 4-digit PIN) gets wrongly and uselessly answered with a lengthy response to a forgotten passcode??!?? I am at a complete loss as to how – for years – dozens of inattentive readers completely ignore the words “4-digit PIN” and, with all good intentions offer a completely useless answer which only deals with forgotten passcodes or passwords. (Sorry if I sound frustrated, but I very much am!)

A passcode is the code one uses to access an Apple device. A PIN, whether 4- or 6- digit, is one type of passcode. Apple also permits you to set an alphanumeric passcode if you wish. All PINs, when used in Apple’s context, are passcodes.

A password, by contrast, refers to what secures an Apple ID.

Indeed the readers are not “inattentive”. They are actually correct.