Comments on: How To Reset the Screen Time Passcode on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS

By: Mir

Mir — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:21:48 +0000

Disabled Find my, made a encrypted backup, then erased and restored! Profit! No password and all data saved.

By: Muahid iPad PRO KILLER

Muahid iPad PRO KILLER — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:31:13 +0000

I have tried that nothing works can you tell us more information because I want to remove it without passcode

By: Sundevil

Sundevil — Thu, 27 May 2021 17:08:52 +0000

How do you hack screen time without Apple ID and apps?

By: Karen Cleckner

Karen Cleckner — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:29:49 +0000

My daughter has restricted me from Facebook through url content filter also parental controls how do I remove these and disabled my screen time passcode I can’t do anything nor do I know how to get parental controls off my iPad. Can you help me

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:31:38 +0000

Phone would not allow signout on Apple ID or restore of encrypted backup. Apple ID would not work to allow to change the screen time password. So went through this process
1. Turn Off Find My
2. Create Encrypted Backup
3. Turn On Find My
4. Go to icloud.com/find, login and find the iPhone
5. Use erase in find my iPhone to reset the device
6. Sign backon to iPhone like you got it back – do not setup touch ID or passcode
7. Restore backup from iTunes
8. Run setup – do not setup passcode or Touch ID
9. Turn off screen time – no passcode should be needed
10. Let all the apps reload from Apple Store.
11. Use Finish iPhone Setup to setup passcode and Touch ID.

By: Person needs help

Person needs help — Sun, 03 May 2020 15:18:59 +0000

My screen time passcode is not working, and factory reseting the iphone is NOT an option. I don’t want to download third party apps to retrieve the passcode. What should I do?

By: Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth Jones — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:15:51 +0000

In reply to Khoi.

Hi Khoi,

When you update an iPad, iPhone, or iPod to iOS 13.4 or iPadOS 13.4 and a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15.4, you can then link your Apple ID to Screen Time for password recovery. To enable this feature, you do need to know your current ST password to set this feature up.

If you forgot your Screen Time passcode, update your device to the latest iOS/iPadOS to at least 13.4 and macOS 10.15.4 then try to reset your passcode.

If you cannot set up Screen Time password recovery with your Apple ID, you’ll need to erase your device and set it up as new to remove the Screen Time passcode. If you have a backup that was made BEFORE you established a Screen Time passcode, you can restore to that backup. Restoring your device from a backup after you set up a Screen Time passcode won’t remove your Screen Time’s passcode.

By: Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth Jones — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:10:40 +0000

In reply to Aisha. Hi Aisha, Is it the Screen Time password that you entered too many times or your Apple ID's password for Screen Time recovery?

By: Khoi

Khoi — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:42:07 +0000

Is there any way that I can reset my screen time passcode without using the computer and are there any ways to reset screen time passcode using apple id password (I don’t know the apple id’s password that is connected to screen time)?

By: Aisha

Aisha — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:21:55 +0000

With the Reset your Screen Time Passcode with Screen Time Passcode Recovery & your Apple ID on iPhones, iPads, and iPods
it won’t let me choose forgot password because of how many times I have failed

By: pawel

pawel — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:08:49 +0000

In reply to Gary. Have you find a solution? I have the same problem?

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:57:56 +0000

None of these method to remove or reset the the Screen Time Passcode worked for me because the Apple ID banner at the top is grayed out. Screen Time > Contents & Privacy Restrictions had been enabled not allowing Passcode Changes, Account Changes, and Cellular Data Changes to be made. I believe the restriction on Account Changes is the reason why the Apple ID Banner is greyed out.

I can access the iCloud.com but I can not access it on this device.

Can not seem to find a solution to remove this Screen Time nightmare.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 03:38:01 +0000

In reply to Emas. I’ve tried this (device running on iOS 13.3.1) and the passcode still carries. This is so frustrating.

By: Emas

Emas — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:41:46 +0000

In reply to Emas. I see the article has been updated per my comment for iPhones operating on iOS13. I wonder if Apple will fix, seems too easy to bypass.

By: Emas

Emas — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:51:04 +0000

Try to sign out of your Apple ID and sign back in. This will reset your passcode.

By: cas

cas — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 05:08:35 +0000

Good info. Lucky me I came across your site by chance (stumbleupon).

By: Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth Jones — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:49:07 +0000

In reply to Bette Neofotistos.

Hi Better,

To put your iPhone’s (iPad or iPod Touch) screen to sleep, just press the power button once and the screen should go black. Alternatively, you can also set a non-use timer (called Auto-Lock) that automatically turns off the screen if a set number of minutes pass without any use. To change the number of minutes, go to Settings app > Display & Brightness and choose Auto-Lock. Then select between 30 seconds to 5 minutes. We do not recommend selecting Never, since this keeps your screen on at all times, whether you use the device or not.

For Macs, go to the top Apple Menu (apple icon) and choose Sleep. To set an automatic sleep, go to that Apple Menu and choose System Preferences > Energy Saver. Change the duration on non-activity under Turn Display off after from 1 minute up to 3 hours. Again, we do not recommend using Never.

For MacBooks, you see separate sliders for automatic sleep times using the battery and using the charger.

By: Bette Neofotistos

Bette Neofotistos — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:49:13 +0000

How do I get my screen to shut off when not using?

By: mgame

mgame — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:44:00 +0000

You can not imagine simply how so much time I had spent for this info!
Thanks

By: Cats4Lyfe

Cats4Lyfe — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:19:45 +0000

In reply to Cats4Lyfe. Update 2: It stopped working after I selected "share across devices" After I redid the other steps and made sure to keep the "share across devices" off on all my apple products, things have been working fine. I even changed the passcode for each device and the new passcode is still working :)