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How to bypass IO4s security passcode...

  • 26-10-2010 2:27pm
    #1
    Quick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭


    Type 3 by # on the emergency screen, then hit the call button and almost simultaneously hit the off button.

    Bypassed the security and had access to everything on the phone.

    Im sure Apple will have a patch soon - 16x16_smiley-surprised.gif


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  • #2
    brianhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭brianhickey


    Quick wrote: »
    Type 3 by # on the emergency screen, then hit the call button and almost simultaneously hit the off button.

    Bypassed the security and had access to everything on the phone.

    Im sure Apple will have a patch soon - 16x16_smiley-surprised.gif
    It works! That's pretty crazy, thanks.


  • #3
    brianhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭brianhickey


    Oh wait it didn't really. I can't get out of the phone app. Is there another trick to get out of that?


  • #4
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Yeah - half works for me too - brings me to the phone app but after that returns me to the lock screen.

    Still, someone could make a lot of calls to Australia that way!


  • #5
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    Dades wrote: »
    Still, someone could make a lot of calls to Australia that way!

    Big time, very dodgy!

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



  • #6
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Can't replicate it here. So Emergency Call > Type "#" 3 times > hit the Call Button and the Lock button simultaneously

    Just locks the phone for me...


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  • #7
    naasrd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭naasrd


    There's another way too according TUAW. When the passcode screen comes up tap Emergency Call, dial any number then hit Sleep button right away.

    http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/26/ios-4-1-security-bug-bypass-passcode-entry-and-access-phone-ph/


  • #8
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    seamus wrote: »
    Can't replicate it here. So Emergency Call > Type "#" 3 times > hit the Call Button and the Lock button simultaneously

    Just locks the phone for me...
    I think hitting call "followed quickly by the sleep button" would be a better description.

    I was too quick with the sleep button the first couple of times and then left a second or so gap and it worked.


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