

Why You’ll Have to Reset Your iPhone if You Lose Your Passcodeīack in 2016, even the FBI wasn’t able to hack into a locked iPhone, and asked Apple to create a special iOS that would enable law enforcement to circumvent the phone’s tight security. But, in case you don’t, we’ll show you how to reset an iPhone without a passcode through iTunes via a computer, as well.

The second caveat is that if you want to know how to reset an iPhone without a passcode and computer, you’ll need to have the Find My iPhone feature enabled. There’s absolutely no way of preserving your data if you forget your code, so if you are not currently locked out of your iPhone, we encourage you to follow our steps for backing up your data – pronto. If someone gets ahold of your phone, they can theoretically make use of it, but only after all the data has been deleted-which means the photos of you doing that silly pose in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa will never be seen by the public eye (it’s better that way, really). One good thing about owning an iPhone is that you can be sure that your data is very secure, as long as you have a passcode in place.
