# **On a “beautiful day” you suddenly forget your iPhone passcode and Face ID or Touch ID doesn’t work** *>>Don’t worry because this is the way to fix it* **But to do this, you need to back up your phone to a PC or Mac beforehand.** One of the most common iPhone users is setting a complicated password – and it’s possible that at some point you’ll forget lose it, and if Face ID or Touch ID doesn’t work (after you restart your phone, for example) you won’t be able to open your iPhone. Another possible scenario is that someone or even your child repeatedly enters the wrong passcode – and after 6 times, the iPhone will be “disabled” (disabled) for a period of time. determined. You will have to wait for the number of minutes shown on the screen to pass. Fortunately, Apple has a simple guide available that shows you how to deal with a locked iPhone, but to do this, you need to back up your phone to a PC or Mac beforehand. ## **How ​​to unlock iPhone when you forget passcode** The first thing you have to do is turn off your iPhone. For phones from iPhone X and later, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone SE (Gen 2 and 3), you’ll need to press and hold both the power button and the Volume down button until the power off slider appears. On iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6, iPhone SE (Gen 1) and iPhone 5s and earlier – you need to press and hold the power button until the power off slider appears. Once you’ve finished powering off your iPhone, you have to take a few actions to put your iPhone into “restore” mode: With iPhone X and later, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone SE ( Gen 2 and 3) you use the power button, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus use the Volume Down button. iPhone SE (Gen 1) and iPhone 6s and earlier use the Home button. After pressing and holding the corresponding button above, you immediately connect the iPhone to the computer – and keep holding the button until the recovery mode screen displays, then release. On a Mac, you’ll use Finder, and on a Windows computer, you’ll need to open iTunes to restore your iPhone based on the most recent backup. When the process is finished, you can restore your iPhone and use it again. The above is all you need to do to unlock your iPhone. The same steps also apply to iPad. ## **Can a bad guy unlock an iPhone this way?** The good news is that the process is very secure. Without knowing your Apple ID credentials, bad guys won’t be able to use this process to unlock your iPhone. They can delete it and try to put it in recovery mode, but still need an Apple ID – otherwise the “Activation Lock” feature will kick in. ## **Use 3rd party software to unlock iPhone** However, there are 3rd party apps that can help unlock iPhone without Apple ID. One of them is Tenorshare 4uKey, it can be an easier way to unlock iPhone than recovery. But rest assured, if someone intentionally unlocks your iPhone in this way, it will lead to data loss. And these are all the reasons why iPhone backup is always essential for users.
