Hacker News Reader

There's a device called "IP box" which may be able to do that, it's not cheap but a mobile repair/unlocking store would probably have one.

View on HN

How does it work?

For a 4 digit unlock code, the device would enter them sequentially starting from 0000 and ending at 9999 [1]. Because there is a delay of 6 seconds between each attempt (on iOS 7.xx) it would take just over 16 and a half hours to try all codes.

[1] https://www.fonefunshop.com/ip-box-iphone-password-unlock-to...

Right now with these tools you are just playing passcode roulette to recover your device if you forgot the code and you enabled factory wipe after N tries.

Out of these retries, at least 1/N correct passcode attempts are needed, so such tools are close to useless if your care about retrieving your data with factory wipe enabled.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com