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Forced password change

sjf707

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Anyone know why my phone would force me to change my home screen passcode?
I am currently on hotel wifi but I logged into that over 12 hours ago.
Steve
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Rob Phillips

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That happened to my wife recently as well. Were you using a four-digit passcode? It made her change hers to a six-digit code. We were on home wifi at the time so I don't think that had anything to do with it. My guess is that Apple is trying to get away from four-digit passcodes for security reasons.
 

Sherry_B

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That happened to my wife recently as well. Were you using a four-digit passcode? It made her change hers to a six-digit code. We were on home wifi at the time so I don't think that had anything to do with it. My guess is that Apple is trying to get away from four-digit passcodes for security reasons.

I'm getting up there in age, and if Apple keeps adding passcodes to everything on my phone then pretty soon I won't have access to it any more LOL. I'll not give up the great security that's there though. Much much better than anything the Android OS ever offered.
 

Honey Beagle

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Write down all your passwords. I wrote down my new iTunes encryption backup password. Took me about a week to finally put in the correct password. Lot of time within that time line doing that. I am just glad that my password was not something like sdftFgy7603;(. Would never have guessed that one.
 

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