Hi Pat. Is that iPhone regularly synced and backed up using iTunes on a Mac ?
If so then perhaps it can be restored using iTunes from the Mac. > On 29 Sep 2019, at 2:52 pm, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few weeks ago, my husband carelessly left his backpack sitting on the > train platform. Two stations later, he realised what had happened and > immediatiely went back to the start: but too late. The phone was gone. The > very helpful conductors helped us lock the phone, and then we started a > search to find the phone. And we did find the phone 2 days later, and got > it back. > > Unfortunately, my husband couldn’t remember the Passcode. It was all numbers > in some kind of mathematical array. The phone is on the family plan, so I am > the person who has to fix it. > > I looked on the internet to see how to change the passcode, but most (or all) > remedies involve erasing the phone (there is no back up). > > I would like to know if uploading that data to the Cloud or the App Store in > order to change the passcode also will erase the data, or would it be > possible to see what is there, so we could replace it? > > Pat > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
