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Hi there, my son managed to get ahold of my iphone3 and due to me having a password on it he has managed to disable my iphone3, due to entering incorrect password a number of times. The password I initially set up is not working now? Could you please advise me how I can fix this. Many thanks, Melody

  • Michael J.
    Michael J. Aug 13, 2011

    Contact Apple. A lot of us won't help with that form of solution due to the risk that it could be a stolen phone.

    It may not be in this case. But were not gonna risk that. Plus Apple has all kinds of tricks to fixing problems like that

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Plug it into iTunes and follow the instructions on how to reset the phone. No need to take it to apple, they will do the same thing. From--Genius Bar Tech

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