Younger son locked iPod touch, now can't remember the passcode

[pinkoos]

I'm not even sure how he was able to do this b/c I had set up restrictions on his (and his big brother's) touches. To set up restrictions, a passcode is required.

I guess I wrongly assumed that if they wanted to set up their own passcode lock, the restrictions would prevent it. Live and learn I guess.

Anyway, now he's set up a passcode lock and is locked out of the device.

They just returned from about 6 weeks in Northern California late last night, so the touch hasn't been synced to iTunes on my Mac. However, I had set it up to sync to iCloud, so I'm guessing it was synced last sometime either yesterday or even possibly this morning.

I did some quick googling and my guess is that I have to put the touch in recovery mode and then restore it, which will obviously wipe it. I should be able to restore it from the iCloud backup. I just hope it's a recent backup.

Anyway, I thought I'd check here to see if anybody knows any other way to get into it without the recovery mode, restore from backup route?

Thanks!

If you're curious, he's the one with the blue snowcone below.

[Psurfer]

I suggest putting that kid to work with a pile of blank Lotto cards ASAP!

[NewtonMP2100]

....so you literally....can't TOUCH this.....????

[samintx]

can you reformat the iPod?

[pinkoos]

samintx wrote:
can you reformat the iPod?

Yeah, I think that's what the recovery mode ---> restore procedure does. Wipes it clean and then either restores to factory or restores from your most recent backup.

[pinkoos]

Psurfer wrote:
I suggest putting that kid to work with a pile of blank Lotto cards ASAP!

I like that idea.

[rjmacs]

Luckily, if he's been connected to wifi recently, iCloud backs up automatically so it should be recent.

[pinkoos]

rjmacs wrote:
Luckily, if he's been connected to wifi recently, iCloud backs up automatically so it should be recent.

Yeah, the last time it was backed up was the day before he got locked out around 1:30 PM. So, I ended up just doing the recovery mode and then restore from iCloud back up over wifi.

He had some 200+ apps (most free or free for the day specials, etc.), so it was going to take forever to redownload over wifi. So, I just plugged back into my Mac and had it restore the apps over wire (at least I think it restored over wire...I got a message that I needed to keep wifi on - I had turned it off - so I'm not sure which method it ended up getting the apps back with), but all's well that ends well!

I told both kids no more passcode locks. Though, I'm still baffled that if restrictions are enabled, there should be an option to disable passcode lock. I'm sure this happens all the time.