Ten Most Common iPhone Passcodes Revealed

[Don Kosak]

I use a pseudo-random number generator to pick my passcodes and I change it once every 15 minutes, just to be super-secure. That's how I can be confident that nobody will see my top-secret data, such as the note saying "bring bread and milk on the way home".

Of course that means that once in a while my passcode is 1234 or 0000!

Ha! I have that beat. Not only do I cycle through different lock codes evey 500 milliseconds, I keep my iPhone in a sealed, lead-lined faraday cage encased in a foot of concrete. You can never be too careful.

I do carry around a wallet though, and my cash, driver's license, credit cards and medical card are all in human-readable plain text with no security. hmm

 

[HE15MAN]

What's with 1998?

 

[Rodimus Prime]

is it sad that none of those numbers are really surprising. Hell I am willing to bet that the same group of numbers used match pin numbers for there debit cards when people are allowed to choose their own. People are way to lazy and have no idea how to create a good pin/password these days.

for a pin
Choose a set of numbers that is significant to you. Make sure it is NOT based on your birthday or kids/wife birthday. and not something stupid like 1234.

Examples are last 4 digits of your first love phone number which will apply to older people here as it is safe to say anyone born in the past 20 years have grown so used to contact list in cell phones.

Use an old phone number from your pass that has not been in use for years.
Old street address.

I am just showing you a list of places to pull 4 digits from that you can remember.

Passwords are even easier as you can base them on simpler things providing you know how to mix them up.

Your last name is Homes kid we are going to day Kevin was born in 2007 and you wife Abby Jane was born in 1983 married 2005 in TX

KH07AJ83TX05. So what you have to remember Kevin Homes, Abby Jane, Texas.

Now it looks like a mess of a password when it is all said and done but really fairly easy to remember.

 

[Analog Kid]

wow... 1,425 people in that chart have use the word "love" as a password... interesting

Thank you! That one was driving me crazy... I couldn't figure out what the pattern was.

 

[kdarling]

I'm a little surprised that lucky 7777 isn't in there.

When I programmed casino equipment, our logs showed it as everyone's favorite

 

[MacFan1701]

1234? That's the kind of thing an idiot has on his luggage!!!

 

[slicecom]

What's with 1998?

There were more stupid people born in 1998 than any other year.

 

[jdogg836]

There were more stupid people born in 1998 than any other year.

Really?

 

[ChristianVirtual]

So my iPhone is off the statistics as the heroes of our IT force us to enter 8 digits per policy. And auto lock active keeps my pin often entered.

 

[eastercat]

Before Apple started allowing more than 4 characters for the lockscreen, my number was 1124.

 

[nagromme]

What's with 1998?

A lot of 13-year-olds with iPod Touches?

5683 puzzles me more. That’s more common than, say, 4321 or 9999?

(I think this info is a bit of a security/trust violation. Your choice of password goes into a data pool which is used to publish this report, which could help a thief unlock your phone! Still... interesting!)

 

[haruhiko]

A lot of 13-year-olds with iPod Touches?

5683 puzzles me more. That’s more common than, say, 4321 or 9999?

(I think this info is a bit of a security/trust violation. Your choice of password goes into a data pool which is used to publish this report, which could help a thief unlock your phone! Still... interesting!)

I have deleted the app after reading this report.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

A lot of 13-year-olds with iPod Touches?

5683 puzzles me more. That’s more common than, say, 4321 or 9999?

(I think this info is a bit of a security/trust violation. Your choice of password goes into a data pool which is used to publish this report, which could help a thief unlock your phone! Still... interesting!)

look at the letters on 5683

5 (JKL)
6 (MNO)
8 (TUV)
3 (DEF)

now what keys do you hit to spell LOVE.

 

[ThE.MeSsEnGeR]

Thank you! That one was driving me crazy... I couldn't figure out what the pattern was.

I recognized it immediately because I ALWAYS chose my passwords by creating 4-letter words or acronyms for example, last month when I bought my XBOX360 my password was 9269... and now that I bought an iPhone 4 this week, my password is 3664 as in "fon4" a bit close to iphone4 .... you got the picture

 

[garoto]

Are you F#C###G kidding me? Talk about being unethical. A users data should be confidential, and if it is going to be used for statistical purposes they need to be informed, regardless of the developer collecting the data from hums own app. The app legally belongs to the user once they paid for it.

Also, is he seriously surprised that 15% of the passwords input had the same passwords? Well here's a little fact: there are only 9999 possible lockscreen combinations, and millions of iPhone users. What are the odds right? :: sarcasm font::

 

[robpow]

1234? That's the kind of thing an idiot has on his luggage!!!

Ah, classic!

 

[reactions]

I use my pin - ATM


Anyone else?

 

[ThE.MeSsEnGeR]

..... there are only 9999 possible lockscreen combinations .....

actually it's 10,000 possible combinations

 

[Truffy]

look at the letters on 5683

5 (JKL)
6 (MNO)
8 (TUV)
3 (DEF)

now what keys do you hit to spell LOVE.

Or KNUD.

 

[ChristianVirtual]

Or KNUD.

Or LOUD ... What else ...

 

[MartiNZ]

JOVE!

I'm in the "not a fan" camp on this one, although possibly of less magnitude than other posters.

I have never used a passcode on my iPhone, but I think it would be my ATM one if I did.

 

[ghostlyorb]

Interesting. I can't stand having to put in a password everything I want to send a text. I use my phone too much... and if it get's stolen.. EVERYONE has an iPhone.. I can just remote lock it!

 

[aleni]

if your username is johndoe@gmail.com, just take 6 letters in reverse and put stupid numbering on that, that would be simple and easy to remember.

the password would be eodnho11123

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I wouldn't be a happy user of that app if I used one of those 10 passwords and they just shared it with the world.

And if my phone is broken into because I use the same passcode...

Gary

Really? It seems to me that if you use a passcode that simple you really don't care.

I have deleted the app after reading this report.

LOL! Man, people really are up in arms about this. What exactly is the problem? Do you guys even know what you're mad about?

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

no need to passcode my phone.. oh no they'll see my vacation pictures