My personal take: if you’re desperate to circumvent Screen Time restrictions, then this will work for you. So you’ll lose access to your already purchased apps. You’ll also need to sign in with a different Apple ID than the one with Screen Sharing, or none at all. If Screen Time was set through Family Sharing, the device will need to be wiped to disable Screen Time. That’s only possible, however, if you can disable Find My iPhone If Screen Time was set on the device and not through Family Sharing, then it’s possible to preserve the data on the device. Unlike other features, this one can work without completely erasing the device depending on how screen time was applied to the device. IMyPhone Lockwiper’s Unlock Screen Time Passcode will remove the screen time passcode from your iOS device. While effectively the same thing, don’t think that you’ll be able to run this and just have access to your data. It doesn’t unlock the device so much as wipe and reset the device to circumvent the passcode. My personal take: Unlock iPhone Screen Passcode sort of does what it purports to do. While it’s not a perfect solution to being locked out of your phone, it works and you’re in a better place than you were with a completely locked phone. Once you have access to the device, you can use another iOS data recovery application to recover data from the phone. The only limitation is that if Find My iPhone or iPad is enabled prior to wiping, you’ll need the Apple ID and password associated with the device to set it up. Unlock iPhone Screen Passcode will wipe your device and remove the passcode. Not so with the iMyFone Lockwiper Unlock iPhone Screen Passcode function. Sometimes you’ve entered the code too many times and completely lock the device. Sometimes you forget the passcode to your iPhone or iPad. Still, it wipes a device and lets you access it, as outlined by the instructions. I can think of a lot of uses for this feature, only a few of which I’d use with a device that I own. My personal take: Unlock Apple ID is a misleadingly named feature with questionable legitimacy. It doesn’t, as claimed, somehow unlock the password for an Apple ID. I suppose this feature is helpful: it gives you access to a device that has two-factor authentication enabled and therefore cannot be otherwise reset without the second factor. Upon connecting the device, the functionality was explained: it removes Apple ID from a device with two-factor authentication turned on. On running it for the first time, iMyFone Lockwiper downloaded iTunes for me as I didn’t have it on the PC I used for testing. The iMyFone website cites some common issues: being locked out of an Apple account, not being able to reset a phone, and other options. The first of four options in iMyFone Lockwiper, Unlock Apple ID states that it will do exactly that. Whether or not it is, I’ll provide my impressions of iMyFone Lockwiper as I run it through its paces. Let’s take a look and see if that’s really the case. IMyFone Lockwiper purports to unlock iOS devices with aplomb. Fortunately for you, they seem to be very reliable now. Unfortunately for me, tools like this weren’t very reliable a decade or so ago. While that’s not a common occurrence, it does teach what to do when needing to recover a personal device. In various technology-centric careers, I’ve had the opportunity to legitimately circumvent authentication measures on various devices. I’m a technology enthusiast, information security professional, and attorney.
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