What to do after you lost restriction code on the iPad? [duplicate]

What amaksoud said is true. I have the original iPad on 4.3.1 and after trying other advice decided to "read" the com.apple.springboard.plist.

Here's how to do it and no need to jailbreak.

Download iFunBox; it's free and works for OS X and Windows. Choose Raw File System and navigate to var/mobile/Library/Preferences. Select the file named com.apple.springboard.plist and choose copy to Mac (in my case). Copy the file to your preferred location.

Then in Finder you select the com.apple.springboard.plist (that you just copied to your Mac) and look for <key>SBParentalControlsPIN</key>. The 4 numbers located between the tag <string> </string> are your Restriction passcode.

For example <string>1234</string> means your passcode is 1234.

Hope this helps.

I'm afraid I have some bad news for you... As you would have guessed (otherwise there would be no point in using restriction codes), there is no easy fix for this issue.

I found this in the support documents of Apple (on page 196):

If you forget your passcode, you must restore the iPhone software from iTunes. See “Updating and Restoring iPhone Software” on page 252.

And if you restore your iPhone, make sure you don't restore them from a back-up since the restriction code is stored in this backup...

So basically, you have quite a dilemma here and you have to choose between maintaining your data and learn to live with the restrictions on one hand, or get rid of the restrictions but start from scratch with your iPhone on the other hand.