In the fall of 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5s equipped with a fingerprint scanner, and over the years, biometric user identification modules have been actively used by all smartphone manufacturers. However, the traditional lock screen password consisting of numbers and / or letters has not gone away and is still a security vulnerability in the iOS device.
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Despite its simplicity, an ordinary lock screen password (often just a four-digit number) in most cases prevents unauthorized access to the user’s personal data, and also facilitates the return of stolen and lost smartphones to their owners. However, cybersecurity experts from the SANS Institute say that about a quarter of all hacked iPhones were unlocked using just the 20 most popular combinations of numbers.
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20 most common iPhone passwords
1234
1111
0000
1212
7777
1004
2000
4444
2222
6969
9999
3333
5555
6666
1122
1313
8888
4321
2001
1010
Especially often, such passwords are set by users of outdated gadgets that are not equipped with a Touch ID sensor or Face ID technology, because they have to enter the code dozens of times a day. However, owners of more modern devices also do not always pay due attention to security.
In fact, coming up with and remembering a complex password for the iPhone lock screen (or anything else) is pretty easy. For example, if you need a simple 4-digit key, then you can simply subtract your parents’ house number from the year of your birth and get a completely random password that does not fall into the frequently used statistics. We have already published an interesting material about inventing and remembering passwords with useful tips from a hacker.
By the way, even a complex and long password “cuts” into the so-called muscle memory quite quickly. In the video below, you can see a Japanese man entering the 50-digit iPhone lock screen key on the Tokyo subway.
It is worth noting that before the release of iOS 9, iPhone users could only set 4-digit lock screen passwords, while subsequent versions of Apple’s mobile operating system allow using long combinations of characters (numbers and letters). Detailed instructions on how to set and change the iPhone lock screen password can be found here.
Dear readers, we ask you to take part in the voting and honestly answer the question: “Is your iPhone unlock password in the TOP-20 most common?”
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