iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker
iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker works on all iDevices running iOS 7 – 11.
NB: With iOS 12, Apple moved the Restrictions Passcode into the Keychain, meaning this service is no longer effective against iDevices on iOS 12 and higher. I know, sad isn’t it?
Nothing for you to worry about, your new solution is Pinfinder, a small, downloadable freeware cross-platform utility that will recover your Restrictions Passcode from an iOS 12+ backup. Easy & effective. Forgotten your iOS Restrictions Passcode? Yeah, so had I, on my 32GB iPod Touch A1421. What a PIA, there’s no remote recovery option for that one. Stink. What I needed was an iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker to remove the Restrictions Passcode.
Without an iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker, I was looking at a full iOS update/restore to rid the pesky forgotten code. The official word from Apple was not good – I’d lose my jailbreak & be forever pissed that a simple 4-digit code beat me. shakes fist at sky You could train a monkey to find the passcode – eventually. End up with monkey spit all over your iDevice too, but that’s another story.
Look, recently Apple has shown that they can apply excellent security to protect their products (iCloud from iOS 7.1.2 on for example). Often though, they leave a hole so wide you can drive a truck through it. (rm /var/db/.applesetupdone anyone? Or resetpassword even?)
One of the repeated shortcomings of technology in general is to limit PIN passcodes to 4 digits – thereby reducing the possible target range to a maximum of 10,000 (0000 – 9999, your answer is somewhere in here.) This shortcoming affects your bank PIN, Android device, TV lock code, and Apple too. By itself, this is not secure protection.
Apple have no record of Restrictions Passcodes via the Apple ID mechanism, therefore the passcode data is on your device, right? Well obviously it is. Let’s find it. Where should you look? In an unencrypted iTunes backup, that’s what backups are for – storing data from a device.
It’s public knowledge that Apple obfuscate data with the pbkdf2-hmac-sha1 encryption, leaving a string of garbled text that requires decryption to be of any use. So, the process is – find the string, copy it, crack the encryption, pr0fit!!
Let’s Get Cracking!
If you have a Jailbreaked device, and thus root-level access to the file system, search for com.apple.restrictionspassword.plist, using either iFile from the device or a PC tool like iTools or iFunbox. Open the .plist, copy the RestrictionsPasswordKey data and RestrictionsPasswordSalt data then paste it into the relevant form boxes of the iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker below.
If your iDevice is not JB’d, then you need to extract the string from an unencrypted iTunes backup. Windows users can find your backup folders here: – %SYSTEMDRIVE%/Users/*Your Username*/Appdata/Roaming/Apple Computer/MobileSync/Backup/Long Random Number/ and on Mac ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
Inside the folders there’s a file named 398bc9c2aeeab4cb0c12ada0f52eea12cf14f40b – this contains the encrypted data string that we need. Copy that file name & use your OS Search function.
Found it? Good. Now open the file with a simple text editor (ie Notepad) to expose data that reads like this:
RestrictionsPasswordKey M/p4734c8/SOXZnGgZot+BciAW0=
RestrictionsPasswordSalt aSbUXg==
So the required data is:
Key: M/p4734c8/SOXZnGgZot+BciAW0=
Salt: aSbUXg==
The Magic:
Simply copy/paste the two strings into the relevant iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker form boxes below. (Really, copy/paste – it’s too easy to make a mistake transcribing manually) Next, hit the blue Crack It button & wait til it iterates through the possibilities.
You can select your preferred range – if you know for sure that your lost passcode didn’t start with 00, for example, then enter 1000 in the Starting box.
NB: This is a private transaction. No data is transmitted from this page. All the work is done in your browser by Crypto.js
iOS Passcode Cracker
Pro Tip:
Use a very analog version of distributed computing to decimate the time required to crack your iOS Restrictions Passcode. Open 5 browser tabs with the iOS Restrictions Passcode Cracker loaded in each. Set the Starting Passcodes at 0000 (default), 2000, 4000, 6000, 8000, then hit the blue button in each tab.
Your time saved is dependent on which tab finds the answer. If it’s the first tab, no time saved, sorry ’bout it. But if it’s the last tab & the answer is 9000, then you’ve only calculated 1000 passcodes to get to an answer that’s revealed after 9000 guesses in a single-iteration system. Quantified, at 4 attempts/sec, your answer is revealed in just over 4 minutes, whereas the single tab approach wont reveal the solution for well over half an hour yet.
Either way, soon enough, your iOS Restrictions Passcode will be revealed. This is not a maybe solution, if you’ve entered the Key & Salt data correctly then this app will find the answer.
This page would not exist without the work of Hashcat and John The Ripper. You want cracking skills? Go visit them.
Did you like that? It worked for you? Please leave a comment, tell me about it.
many thank!!! family guy with multiple apple devices , and children …. you saved me 🙂
thank you sir
Thanks I just got rid of an annoying passcode now i can freely use my phone
Thank you so much, you were very helpful and aft several attempts I could finally solve the problem!!!
Congratulations also for being so good.
Maurizio
Any way u can get ur restriction passcode without I file ??
Yeah, there is. Read the instructions written on this page, iFile is only even briefly mentioned, it’s certainly not imperative to the recovery.
q+mxeiktPiG8/eNG+eW7dHEI7jA=
LtXbaA==
hope me
Obviously manners are in short supply at your place today.
Can not button Is there any other way ?
q + mxeiktPiG8 / eNG + eW7dHEI7jA =
LtXbaA ==
5888
hello 1024kb,
i just left the message to you that i’ve tried long time but it just didn’t work on my iphone.But now it worked!!! i used chrome before but it didn’t show anything. i change to ie and it starts running and i finally found my code! Really really really thank you so much to create this magical cracker!!!!!!
This was my bad, I didn’t check everything everywhere on the site after a WordPress update a few days before. User comments like this one alerted me to the problem – which is now solved.
Dear 1024kb
i’ve read the article and comments that this magical code worked on their iphone, but i’ve tried and waited, it doesn’t show any pins… don’t know which part is wrong:(
RetrictionPasswordKey is: 5g3MCwnUAIjaV4M65n0sS7hM+KE=
RestrictionPasswordSalt is: e+ZLGw==
I will be glad hearing back from you.
Works brilliantly on 10.2 thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, worked like a charm! I was contemplating erasing my content and starting from scratch until, it asked me for the restrictions password and i found your page!
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! This worked wonderfully
thank you so much!!! This is awesome!!! you just saved me from all the TRY!!
I LOVE YOU GUYS TOO. THANKS A LOT!!!
Was unable to download the starboy (explicit) song due to restrictions. You guys helped a lot!!! and loved the message that went ‘ahem! your passcode is xxxx”
God bless you!
i love you guys
bro u r juz awesome thnx alot
Hi Ive tried 2 different site this is my third attempt. Its not working….
My
RetrictionPasswordKey is: 5072F8NSDONbOQ9+sxudb5Q6K4Y=
RestrictionPasswordSalt is: AeDJlw==
Please help when you can.
Thanks
Try this:
Edit your backup file to Key: M/p4734c8/SOXZnGgZot+BciAW0= & Salt: aSbUXg== save & restore your device from backup.
Now your restrictions passcode is 0001
Awesome. Took a few hours, but finally got there. It was my daughter’s iPhone and we have no idea who entered the passcode. First we needed to de-encrypt a backup. The password ended up being the icloud password with a lowercase first letter. We never entered that. After getting to the com.apple.restrictionspassword.plist using iPhone Backup Extractor, you managed to crack the passcode in a few minutes. No one recognized the passcode, so it was probably entered accidentally.
This is amazing. To speed things up I opened multiple tabs and ran them simultaneously. First tab was 0000 through 0999. Second was 1000 through 1999 and so on. Thought that might help save time
I can’t express how happy I am right now. You guys are the best.
Wow! This is great! Apple advised me to reinstall the iPhone as a new one…….with losing of all the data. You are my heroes with this solution.
The code was very strange. I never entered that code in my iPhone.
i can’t figure out what my passcode is. i tried like 100 times and it won’t work
You don’t need to figure it out Mandy. The automated process here will do that for you.
You tried 100 times? Wow. There’s 10,000 possible combinations between 0000 & 9999. Enter the required information then leave the cracker to work it out for you. It might take a wee while but it will get the answer.
It worked! Thank you for your genius 🙂 Bless you all
Thanks
謝謝你
真是太神了
THANK YOU!!!!! I wish I would have found this site a LONG time ago…..I’ve spent hours trying to find a way to recover my restrictions passcode! Your instructions were right on and I have no IT experience. I’m not even sure why I picked that password either?!
I got busy with that code cracker when I needed a solution myself. Don’t worry about no IT experience, you’ve just had one.
I have used this website about 6 times, and 5 out of the 6 times it worked! The only time it didnt work is when I accidently thoight an 0 was a O. You sir, are amazing.
Thanks so much! I don’t know why Apple doesn’t have a password reset, but this was a lifesaver. One of my kids must have changed the password, because after seeing it I have no idea where it came from. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Oh man, I was so frustrated that I have been backing up and restoring my iPhone for three devices now and then suddenly noticed this restrictions password that I had forgotten from 2012. I tried to guess, but to no avail. I figured Apple would help. I talked to a Apple agent who said that he could not help. That is a seriously stupid legacy thing. If you can unlock your phone and prove you are over 18 why the heck could they not help you recover the password? I expressed my frustration and was so frustrated that I would have to do a factory restore and then add back all my apps from a stupid list and then memorize and reset every setting to they way I had it. Stubbornly I did a search for “iOS restrictions password crack and this was the 2nd item on the list. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for building this. You are saving huge amounts of people’s time so they could be just enjoying life:-)
How can you tell when the password is the right one? :c
Uhmm, I don’t know what to say. Really, I just don’t.
Thank u soooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dama and jitzz cheta
thank you 🙂 🙂
Oh hey, I’ve had this problem for bloody ages! My friend told me about your site and boom! my iPhone is de-restricted!
Thanks man!
someone help me ! I wait until 9999 but it don’t show the PIN 🙁
key : V2bLcmSSKokd2IZrlyWKqOLxv6Q=
salt : kKD4kg==
Someone help me…. please. Didn’t anyone teach you manners?
You didn’t hit the PayPal button – there isn’t one. So you’re asking for a favour, not purchasing anyone’s time.
I’m running your Key/Salt now, have been for 12 hours or so.
I am so happy with the result!. Thank you so much!
Thank you very much. Great it worked..!
Brilliant – worked on iOS 10 beta too.
Thanks for the kind words. Glad it helped you. I’ll update the text to include iOS 10. & be back here next year to add iOS 11.
Or better yet, I’ll code it in. Something that counts the days from 15/9/2006 then divides by 365, rounds to nearest whole number then prints the array from 7. Seems legit.
Worked like a charm on iOS 9.3.2 and Windows 10. Instead of sifting through 2204 files, I simply searched for a file starting with 398bc9* 🙂 Thanks again. Lifesaver! Did you marry Katy yet?
wow. magic. worked perfectly. Its been 3yrs i’ve been trying to figure my damn restriction password. absolutely marvelled. excellent.
I got the code for my iPad, but when i typed it in, it said it was wrong
Or you typed it in wrong.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for this I spent hours trying to figure out how to find this site. It is currently running but I know it will work. Gets my stepson out of trouble with his mom for setting the code.
This is hilarious, i’ve been searching for a way to crack this for hours, wasted almost a whole day.
Many thanks my friend.
I can’t stop laughing.
You are the bomb!!!! with your page and iphone backup extractor We fixed my husbands phone!!! Thank you so so so very much!!!!!!!
Fantastic. Took about 3 minutes – though it took me 4 hours to work through the garbage and find this site!
Hello,
I cant find the file name: 398bc9c2aeeab4cb0c12ada0f52eea12cf14f40b. Any idea?
Cheers,
Dimo
Where are you looking, Dimo? Mac or PC? I take it you can’t find the iTunes backup folder that contains the file holding the key/salt data?
I have found the backup itself, but I cant find the file. I am using Mac
Then my best guess is that you’ve got backups for several iDevices there & you’re looking in the wrong folder. If the iDevice has a Restrictions Passcode lock, the corresponding 398bc9c… file will be created during backup.
If looking in the other folders proves fruitless, maybe try clearing the main Backup location by moving all the existing individual backup folders to a temporary location, then run your iTunes backup procedure again. I think you’ll find it then.
Thank you very much Bro !!! It worked like a dream !!!
For a minute I thought I’m a hacker. THIS WORKS!!! No hussle. Thanks guys.
You are a cracker, not hacker. Either way, be proud – you took on a crippling digital problem & won. That’s cool.
Hi i keep on getting no result
Password Key: 1q3IL+48mFXZtbeBOZA4gdq1Ips=
Password Salt: xwg7MQ==
Thanks.
Hi Grace, how did you obtain the key & salt? Did you copy straight from an iTunes backup & paste directly into this page?
I have the iPhone 6s running the newest software.
I typed the key and salts in and the mistake was a zero instead of an O in the key.
After fixing this it worked perfectly! Thank you!
Tanks i mistyped the passcode while setting it (i’m not used to the ipad’s touch screens).
you saved me. Thank you a lot
This website is awesome, but I recommend to add the full path on windows itunes backup for the restrictionspasscode.plist
Yeah, that did cross my mind a while ago. Thanks for the reminder, I’ll get it done right now. Cheers.