This happens every few days: I wake up in the morning, try to unlock my phone with Touch ID, and it prompts me for my password. The length and complexity of my password and my drowsiness in the morning make for an unpleasant combination. Why does this keep happening?  Detailed information:   I am using an iPhone 6 (64 GB), running iOS 9.3.2, though this has been an issue for several versions now (at least as far back as 9.3.0). It happens regardless of whether or not I charge my phone at night. It is not caused by iOS updates, because I always manually update iOS. It sometimes happens in the daytime, but seems to be more common after not using my phone for 6+ hours (due to being asleep). I have my "Require Passcode" setting set to "Immediately". I am using a custom alphanumeric code, not a custom numeric code or a 4-digit numeric code. I have Touch ID enabled. Other than when this issue rears its ugly head, it works perfectly.
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Occasionally, when unlocking my iPhone or iPad, I get the following message:     Your passcode is required to enable Touch ID   Now this is not after a number of failed attempts or turning the device off. The device was used within the last 12 hours. Two of the devices are less than 2 months old, and one is a year old. Everything is up to date. It appears to be happening more-or-less at random.  Does anybody know why this message might appear?
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My friend's mate reset his phone to prove him wrong about a situation and ever since then when he tries to update his apps it asks for his mom's iCloud password yet it says at the bottom of the App Store, iTunes and iCloud that it's signed into his account.  We have tried backing it up into his computer but that didn't help. What can be done?
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On my CM9 / ICS 4.0 phone, if I incorrectly enter the drawn pattern five times in a row, it locks itself for 30 seconds. I can't enter any more passwords, but I can click a "forgot my password" button and enter my Google Account password.  On my rooted 4.0.3 tablet running a custom ROM, my lock screen is set with a numeric PIN. If I input it incorrectly five times or more, it locks itself and I can't enter any more passwords.   I'm not offered the option to enter my google account password to bypass this, although I have configured a Google account on the device.  I want to activate the "I forgot" button in order to enter my Google Account credentials. Is it possible?
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I have tried repeatedly to change my Apple ID and password without success. I have followed all of the directions trying both my emails and asked for new passwords----no luck whatsoever.
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I have an iPhone that is frozen while browsing with Safari (it happens all the time). I am aware that holding down the power button with the home button for 10 seconds is supposed to reset the phone. It does not. I have held down for 60 sec or longer at least 10 times, to no avail.   What other options exist to force the phone to reboot, other than waiting for the power to exhaust itself completely after several hours?
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I've read  which states that there is an option to disable the lock using my Google account information. However I did not noticed such an option when I entered my password five times wrong. (Although there was also a 20s or 30s delay to complicate brute force attacks.) I use Android 4.0.3 on a Asus Transformer Prime TF201.  Would factory reset work?
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Is there any way to set up minimum passcode requirements, such as a minimum length, requirement of mixed case alphanumerics and at least 1 symbol in the passcode, and enforce that at passcode changes?
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On the default lock screen, whether using pattern or pin, there is a button at the bottom which says "Emergency Call". But if I try to call my home number or anything it tells me "That is not an emergency call." What does it let through? Is it only 911?   Is there any way to tell it to allow a certain set of numbers from the emergency button, like to set a list of emergency numbers such as: 911, Home and Wife? This would seem like it would be very useful, so if someone finds you smooshed on the road, they know these certain people should be called.
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Is there any kind of guidelines on passcode generation with regards to UX? In particular I just ran into a site that used auto-generated codes but the codes it made were impossible to tell if a letter was a D an O or a 0.  I i l 1 can also be indistinguishable depending on the type style. This would seem like it should be a common UX guideline, never generate codes with those characters. Maybe even U V u v should be removed. g q and 9, 6 and G as well. Next to each other sometimes these are more obvious but in a random code it's not always clear. Do such guidelines exist and are there any other characters that should be avoided? Maybe ! is another one? Note: this question is not about passwords, it's about passcodes (maybe there is another name). A password is something a user can possibly create. A passcode is something a computer creates like emailing you a 6 character code to type in. For example Apple will popup a 6 digit number, a passcode, on an registered Apple device when you try to log into . Apple doesn't have the UX problem above because their passcodes are only digits, no letters.  Conversely some other site had a 10-15 second puzzle to solve, once solved it showed a code  Is that code BB1CA1O8? BB1CA108 ? BB1CA1D8? Get the code wrong and you have to re-fill out the form and solve the 10-15 second puzzle again Note: Obviously if you have 0 and O next to each other you can probably tell them apart. But if you the passcode it shows you is Z35O96 it's not going to be obvious to large percentage of users if that's a letter O or a number zero.
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My Apple-ID (e.g., on  ) is set up to require entry of a 6-digit code sent to my registered Apple products.  This code is being sent to the same device I'm currently requesting to log in. I feel this absolutely defeats the purpose of this 2-Factor Authentication: If a person knows my password, this person can receive the code on that device, and access my apple account without any problems.  Is this a bug or can I set up / change how this security step works?
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my home button on my ipod touch 5th Gen has been broken for  while so I have been using assistive touch. Earlier on my notification centre got stuck half way down the lock screen, making my ipod completely unusable.   I tried turning it off but the notification centre is blocking the slider and obviously I can't restart it since my home button is broken. Has anyone got any solutions? It's an absolute nightmare!
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Something came up today that bugged me a bit, I left my laptop on battery power before going to bed. When starting it up the battery was dead. I plugged it in, and here is what happened:  The startup progress bar came up for a while and then a forgot password prompt came up, with questions like: "set a new password" + 2 other options that I can't remember (they weren't relevant) and a previous and next arrows.  Puzzled, I hit previous and the dialog froze. I proceeded to restart again and ended up on the same dialog, I reset my password to the same as my previous and that was it.  Any idea what might have happened?
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Because of Xcode bug I had to reset my default keychain, and since then I'm getting annoying messages like this:       Here is what does not work:   unlock keychains reset default keychain change keychains password remove ~/Library/Keychains.   It keeps popping once in 15-30 min, sometimes multiple times in a row.  Note that there are no "fix keychain" or "keychain aid" anymore in macOS Sierra Keychain Access app.  Here are   questions with outdated answers.  I would prefer not to create access exceptions for all items, and it's not allowed for iCloud keychain ("Access for this item cannot be edited").
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I have an iPhone I'm trying to restore and the restore keeps failing. Specifically, I'm asked to enter the password for family members. . Also, family sharing doesn't make me enter my family member's password, so why does that happen when restoring a backup?  In order to pick this apart, I'd like to inspect the apps on my iPhone 6 with iOS 9.1 so I can determine which ones are not purchased from my Apple ID.   I have Xcode,  from homebrew on OS X 10.11, iTunes can back up the phone and I can inspect the files on the Mac if there's no way to access this data from iOS - which I'd prefer. Basically, how can I enumerate all apps and determine which ones will prevent me from using an iCloud backup to restore that app using solely my Apple ID and not need the password of a family member.  How can I identify the signing identity used for each app on the iPhone by hook or by crook?
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I was playing around with "User accounts" and somehow set automatic login. Now, when I start my PC, it just has one button named as "login". Clicking that button, directly logs me in to my PC.  There is no music or no asking for password while logging in. As a side effect, it asks me separately for keyring password   How to disable auto login and make login/keyring password unified again like before?  NOTE: Attempting to disable Automatic Login from System Settings > User Accounts does not work.  This is the content of my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf (where I have commented the autologin for my username mgandhi):  [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu #autologin-user=mgandhi
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I dropped my iPhone 6 today; even though there is no noticeable harm on the outside, my phone screen is completely broken. Actually, the phone does not even vibrate when I turn it on. The only reason why I know that it turns on (I think), is that my iTunes say "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone 'my iPhone' ... because the passcode is not entered." I have tried holding home + power button for zillion seconds, and it does not do anything for me. I think the display is really gone.  Although it stinks to have my phone broken, I am more concerned about the data I have inside. I have many text messages with my girl-friend and voice memos that I do not want to lose. I have a program that can obtain these data, but because I cannot unlock the phone with my screen completely gone (I think touch is not working either), I do not know what to do.  Could you please help me?
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I'm going thru a phone swap, and I now realize that I have multiple ID's   "codename" "codename@example.com" "realname@example.com"   I've tested all three, and they all have different login passwords. Not sure how I got here but I'd like to clean the mess up.  Is there any way to delete / remove / erase unwanted ID's so they don't exist anymore?  (Note: their existence creates total havoc with any type of ID edit...)  I see from  that I can't merge the apple ID's, but can I simply delete the unwanted ID's?