{"id":258,"date":"2010-05-10T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2010-05-10T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:35:07","slug":"longer-password-on-your-iphone-theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/longer-password-on-your-iphone-theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Put A Secure Password On Your iPad or iPhone? &#8211; Apple iPhone Configuration Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Put A Secure Password On Your iPad or iPhone &#8211; Profile Built With Apple iPhone Configuration Utility\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wished that the iPad, iPhone or Touch had better security than the four digit security code? A secure solution begins with a minimum six character alpa-numeric passcode.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/216.146.204.83\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_06791.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0679.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With the <strong>Apple iPhone Configuration Utility<\/strong> we&#8217;ve built a profile that allows alphanumeric passcodes.  All you have to do is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworksinc.net\/files\/macworks.mobileconfig\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>open this link<\/strong><\/a> (on your iPad, iPhone or iTouch) and you will be prompted to pick a new passcode. Your passcode can be a mix of letters and numbers, with a minimum of six characters. The only restriction is you cannot use a consecutive order like &#8220;joe123&#8221;. You would have to do something such as &#8220;joe132.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To remove this profile feature for longer passwords, go to your iPad, iPhone or iTouch <strong>Settings\/General\/Profiles\/macworks\/<\/strong> then click remove and confirm. Next, change your passcode back to something numeric.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/216.146.204.83\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_06771.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0677.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, use at your own risk since it is possible to forget your password. If you do, you would need to reset your device. Happy security!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put A Secure Password On Your iPad or iPhone &#8211; Profile Built With Apple iPhone Configuration Utility\ufeff \u00a0 Have you ever wished that the iPad, iPhone or Touch had better security than the four digit security code? A secure solution begins with a minimum six character alpa-numeric passcode. With the Apple iPhone Configuration Utility we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,8,31,25],"tags":[51,117,50,122,26,49],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple","category-apple-products","category-iphone","category-leopard","category-mac","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-security","tag-mac","tag-macworks","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}