Hi Pat,
Sorry, if you have not previously backed the phone up to either your computer
or the cloud, I would hope that this is not possible!
I you could do this then, surely, it would mean that anyone else who got hold
of the phone could do this and access all your data!
Sort of a catch22 really - you need a good password to keep people out but
then, if you forget it, it keeps you out too!
One reason why I use 1Password - but then I'd be up s**t creek if I forget that
password!
I also keep secure notes in my keychain for some info I might forget - but then
the barrier is my login password.
My thinking is that I expect to forget any password/info which I do not use too
often. My passwords for my login and 1Password get used on a daily basis and so
are (hopefully!) kept at the front of my mental filing cabinet.
If you don't want to erase and start again from scratch, you could try a few
exercises to try and remember the existing password - some suggestions I came
across:
• Take a deep breath. Leave your iPhone behind, go for a walk, and try not to
think about the passcode per se. Separating yourself from the frustration may
help jog your subconscious to release the information you have forgotten.
• If you still do not remember your passcode when you return, hold the iPhone
in your hand and ideally sit or stand somewhere where you know you have entered
your passcode before - If that is not an option, try to face a direction that
you were facing when you successfully entered your passcode previously. Relax.
Close your eyes. Open your eyes again. Enter the passcode without a conscious
effort to remember the numbers or letters but instead "feel" it. You may be
able to essentially trigger "muscle memory" of the motion pattern you have used
before to enter the code.
OR, if you have a lot on the phone that you do not want to lose, one other
(expensive) option - you could consider buying a new iPhone without restoring
the old one. The hope would be that you might remember the passcode at some
point in the future. Perhaps buying an expensive new phone will allow you to
remember the passcode the next day. D'oh!
Good luck
Cheers
Neil
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Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: n...@possumology.com
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Date: Sunday, 29 September 2019 at 14:52
To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au>
Subject: Changing passcode
A few weeks ago, my husband carelessly left his backpack sitting on the
train platform. Two stations later, he realised what had happened and
immediatiely went back to the start: but too late. The phone was gone. The very
helpful conductors helped us lock the phone, and then we started a search to
find the phone. And we did find the phone 2 days later, and got it back.
Unfortunately, my husband couldn’t remember the Passcode. It was all
numbers in some kind of mathematical array. The phone is on the family plan, so
I am the person who has to fix it.
I looked on the internet to see how to change the passcode, but most (or
all) remedies involve erasing the phone (there is no back up).
I would like to know if uploading that data to the Cloud or the App Store
in order to change the passcode also will erase the data, or would it be
possible to see what is there, so we could replace it?
Pat
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