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How to change screen time password

The general instructions don’t work, screen time password doesn’t change after successful entering my Apple ID. I am just taken back again on the same stage of “entering your old screen password/forgot password?”

iPhone 11 Pro

Posted on Aug 28, 2020 5:02 PM

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Posted on Aug 28, 2020 5:07 PM

If you follow—>If you forgot your Screen Time passcode - Apple Support very carefully, step by step, and it doesn’t work the only option is to restore the phone and set it up as a new phone, without restoring a backup.


This can happen if the passcode was originally a Restrictions passcode that migrated to being the Screen Time passcode with iOS 12 or later.

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Aug 28, 2020 5:07 PM in response to Natalia2021

If you follow—>If you forgot your Screen Time passcode - Apple Support very carefully, step by step, and it doesn’t work the only option is to restore the phone and set it up as a new phone, without restoring a backup.


This can happen if the passcode was originally a Restrictions passcode that migrated to being the Screen Time passcode with iOS 12 or later.

How to change screen time password

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