How To Unlock Iphone 4s Passcode

[Carlota Sproul]

Iam setting up a new iPad. I set the same passcode on the iPad as I have for my iPhone. In the setup I successfully log into my apple account but then it asks for my iPhone passcode. I put it in and it says that I have incorrectly put in the iPad passcode, not the iPhone passcode. They are the same of course. I choose other devices and it asks for my MacBook password. I have three accounts on my MacBook but none of the passwords work. I am stuck in this set of the setup and cannot go forward. I checked the devices on my apple account and they all are correct.

Sounds like you've tried a couple different passcodes and you're still running into issues. What is currently on the display of the iPad now? Are you still setting up the iPad or is it showing that the device is disabled. If it's disabled, this resource can help:

I want to change the passcode. I have not forgotten it, and I don't want to restore my phone. On-line instructions tell me to go to settings, and choose "Face ID & Passcode". But there is NO such menu option under settings. I have temporarily lost the use of one hand, so I can no longer hold the phone and put in my passcode. I would also like to add more face IDs because it can't seem to recognize me many times. But those settings are no longer under Privacy -- no place.... I'm on an iphone 14 IOS 16.3.1

I figured out why my iphone 14 doesn't have "Face ID & Passcode" under settings. It is a fairly new phone, so it must have come this way. To change a passcode, one has to first ALLOW passcodes to be changed. Why didn't they tell me this?

JEEZEE. It is amazing that NONE of the Apple directions to change passcode tells us we first must command our phone to allow it. Once I figured this out -- Sure enough, "Face ID & Passcode" appears in my settings screen. WHY does apple not tell us this when we get a new phone? We can NOT change our passcode EVER, unless we first ALLOW it, behind a zillion obscure menus.

Nope, no "Face ID & Passcode" menu under settings. There is "Privacy and Security" but nothing there about the passcode. I did a forced restart, but no help. WHY would I not have a Face ID & Passcode menu option?

Unfortunately, I don't have an iPhone 14, but have a 3rd gen iPhone SE which doesn't support Face ID ... just Touch ID. I can confirm on my phone, that there is a "Touch ID & Passcode" option about three menu items above the "Privacy & Security" one. That is basically where I believe "Face ID & Passcode" should appear on your phone.

Sorry, I don't know why you are not seeing it. You may want to contact Apple Support directly for further assistance with this issue. To do so, simple select the "Support" link on the lower left-hand side of this forum's web page.

Hmm. AFAIK, for an iPhone 14 the only option would be: Settings > Face ID & Passcode. The article provided that information to you. Why you are not seeing it on your phone is not something I can verify as I don't have an iPhone 14 available to try. Sorry!

My only thought would be to perform a "Forced Restart" to see if you can get this menu option resolved ... but may be difficult, without assistance, to perform with only a single hand. Maybe someone can be available to help you with this.

I cant put in my passcode while im laying down. i need two hands, which i might be able to do if it was a shorter passcode. But it would be best to just eliminate it for now. The article you referenced says there is a "Face ID & Passcode" menu option under settings. No, there is not.

I logged out of an App on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. When logging back into the App it asked for my iPhone passcode. This was not access to iCloud Keychain - it was the App asking for my iPhone passcode to access the Apps own login credentials (which, I should add were not up to date - as I had recently updated them). I changed my passcode as precaution after entering it into the App.

Thanks. Yes I see this with certain apps like banking and credits - where settings state Face ID. This particular App does not have any such setting. Is there any risk to an App asking for your iPhone passcode?

It is English. The developer says it is not their app, it is the phone requesting the passcode - but it specifically states the developers app name in the request - this does not happen with other apps like banking. The funny thing is, if it was the phone, it uses the password repository - which uses faceID. When I entered my passcode as required by the App it used my old password for the App and not the one stored in my Keychain.

If you open an app that is set up to log into it with Face ID then it may ask for the iPhone passcode if Face ID is not available or if you are wearing a mask (for example). Banking apps among others are good examples of this.

Problem fixed. I deleted the app on my new iphone and re-downloaded it. I was able to login to Evernote on my iphone and it is now working. I believe the problem was the the app was automatically downloaded to new iphone during transferring apps from my ipad. I had not set a pin for it on the new iphone. Probably, if I used up all my pin tries, I would have been given the opportunity to login with my password and that should have solved the problem.

I am wondering about an unlikely scenario. Let's say I am forced to reveal my iPhone passcode and turnover my iPhone. The unlocked iPhone now has access to all my 1Password stored accounts, and my email accountss allowing the criminal(s) to access my entire life. Seems bad.

Your iPhone passcode cannot unlock 1Password. You need your account password or biometrics (Face ID or Touch ID) to unlock it. It's worth mentioning, though, that if you're already in a situation where someone has threatened you to make you reveal one secret (your iPhone passcode), it's quite plausible they'll also want a second (your 1Password account password).

Your 1Password items shouldn't be appearing here! If you imported your passwords from iCloud Keychain, but didn't delete them from Keychain afterwards, that may explain it, but 1Password does not put anything in that list.

As to be forced to reveal, really I think the compromised pass code (e.g. by inadvertently being captured on camera), followed by an iPhone theft, is what is more likely (though not very likely at all).

I just noticed there is also about 10 items in iOS settings>passwords that all have the website 1password.com, but each item contains a login for various things like instagram, outlook.com etc. all with the website address 1password.com or my.1password.com

Give us a selective sync option for vaults. If this were an option I would put all my most highly sensitive info/passwords (financial accounts / important email accounts) into a vault which I would elect not to sync to my phone.

This doesn't really help as it removes the vault from all my devices. I want access to all my vaults on the devices I only use at home (without having to toggle travel mode every time I leave the house).

Even if I turn on travel mode, someone who has obtained my 1Password password by threat of violence can get to my secret key from stolen mobile device which they can then use to log into 1Password.com and turn off travel mode to access my most sensitive vaults.

What I really want is the ability to control on a per-device basis whether that device has access to specific vaults and whether it has the ability to setup a new device (i.e. whether or not it can reveal the secret key).

Regarding the original topic (presumably related to recent WSJ article) - when it comes to iOS devices (and Android for that matter) I'm not sure there's anything to say beyond what others have already said. If a thief has obtained your device and device passcode they can access your device but not 1Password. To access 1Password they would also need your 1Password master password or ability to dupe the device biometrics.

However, I think there is an issue on Windows (I don't know about Mac). Turning on ability to unlock 1Password on Windows using biometrics (Windows Hello) seems to bring with it the ability to unlock 1Password with the computer Pin/Passcode/Password. As far as I can tell if you want access via biometrics it doesn't seem possible to exclude access via Windows pin/passcode/password.

If a thief has my passcode and would have my locked out of all my other devices. Couldn't he just reset face-id on my iPhone, add his on face to face-id and the open my 1Password vault, as I have previously enabled login with face-id in 1Password?

If a thief steals your iPhone's passcode and adds an alternate appearance to Face ID on your iPhone, Face ID will be automatically disabled for 1Password and you will be required to enter your account password to re-enable Face ID the next time that you try to unlock the app. You can read more about this here: About Face ID security in 1Password for iOS

I can see how it would be useful to be able to selectively add or remove vaults from certain devices and I have added your feature request to our internal tracker so our product team can consider it as they are considering new features to add to future versions of 1Password.

At the moment the only way to restrict a vault to only certain devices would be to create a separate "family member" account for yourself in a 1Password Families membership which would only contain that vault and then only add that account to selected devices. It's not an elegant workaround but I'm sharing it in case it helps. ?

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