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I’m helping my mother in law get into her iPhone and she doesn’t remember her passcode.

I’m helping my mother-in-law get into her phone - she just changed cell carriers - but she doesn’t remember her passcode. The info she has written down doesn’t open the phone and she never had to use it because her daughter turned off her security settings for convenience.

Please help:

HOw can you get into an iPhone w/o a password w/o losing all her data (contacts, Pokémon, etc)?

Thanks for any help you can give.

iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 14

Posted on Nov 18, 2021 12:37 PM

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Posted on Nov 18, 2021 12:41 PM

There is no other way to unlock it, you will have to do a restore which will erase all data on the phone. Hopefully she made backups


If you forgot the passcode on your iPhone, or your iPhone is disabled -

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306

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I’m helping my mother in law get into her iPhone and she doesn’t remember her passcode.

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