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Pro tip: Turn off the "Simple Password" option, then enter a new password that consists of only numbers. The password prompt will then still be the nice 10-digit keypad rather than the full keyboard, but the passcode can be any length.



The phone leaks password data? It tells an attacker that the password contains only numerics?


Yes. If you have digits only, you get a freetext field, but with the digits only keypad.

Even more fun: if you give a four-digit passcode for the non-simple passcode, it turns on the 'simple passcode' option again, which means that you can't have a four-digit passcode without telling the length of the code.



Yes but unlike simple password, it doesn't give away the length, and your numeric password can be as long as you'd like.




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