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You have a lot of things on your iPhone. Email, documents, pictures, and lots more. To keep that data safe you may want to password protect your iPhone to keep others out. You can even factory reset your iPhone after a given number of failed password attempts. While it won't soften the blow of a lost iPhone, at least you'll know your data, passwords and email are safe.

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Butterscotch. Tutorial. How to password protect your iPhone? Michael Callahan: Hi this is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on how to put a password on your iPhone. So we are on our iPhone and we are going to tap on Settings. Now under Settings look for General and tap on that. Like you see passcode lock by default it's off. You are gone want to move down and tap on that, now you are presented with a dialog to enter a four digit passcode, put that in and then you present it with another one to reenter it, the two must match. Once you have down that you passcode is on. Now you can see the required passcode says immediately, if you tap on that you get this dialog you can change it from immediately to after one minute, five minutes, fifteen minutes an hour or four hours, click the one you want. Now you can also have in the erase data option, just remember that if you select that you get this to enable it. But if you put in your password wrong ten times it will wipe everything off of your iPhone. Now your passcode has been set, your iPhone will look like this, you will slide to unlock and you will be presented with the passcode dialog. So this is putting the password on your iPhone and that's all there is to it. Butterscotch. Tasty tech, delicious downloads. Butterscotch.com A division of Tucows Corp.