User level: Level 1 (4 points)phone got locked after my baby put my password in wrong too many times
I had 40 minutes left and someone started blowing my phone up with texts so I powered it off for a little while and when I turned it back on it reset the timer to 3 hours I tried restarting it but it reset the timer again to 3 hours
Its now making me wait another 3 hours and I don't know what to do
I have a iPhone 14
Please help :(
Posted on Oct 30, 2026 1:50 PM
User level: Level 10 (169,253 points)Oct 30, 2026 4:33 PM in response to Dezz12
As for the timer, wait for it to expire.
No restarts, no retries, no allowing children into range, nothing.
Let the timer expire.
Put the iPhone away somewhere safe, and leave it until tomorrow.
Do you have a current backup of the contents of this iPhone?
User level: Level 10 (280,982 points)Oct 30, 2026 1:54 PM in response to Dezz12
Dezz12 wrote:
It[‘]s now making me wait another 3 hours and I don't know what to do[.]
Wait another three hours. Let the time elapse without resetting or shutting down your iPhone. Silence it if you wish.
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Oct 30, 2026 3:55 PM in response to sberman
its now stuck on 1 hour and 22 minutes
Any more advice? I'm scared if I restart my phone it'll reset the timer again.
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256386095