How to Delay Your iPhone Passcode

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Last Updated: March 29, 2019 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to allow an amount of time - between one minute and four hours - to pass after locking your phone before you are required to re-enter your passcode.

Steps

1
Open your iPhone's settings. It's a set of gray cogs that you can find on one of your home screens or in a folder labelled Utilities.
2
Tap Touch ID & Passcode. It's in the third section of menu options.
- On older devices, this will just say Passcode.
3
Type your passcode if prompted.
4
Delete your Touch ID fingerprints, if necessary. If you have fingerprints active on your phone, you'll need to delete them before you proceed. To do this:
- Tap on a fingerprint under the Fingerprints section.
- Tap Delete Fingerprint.
- Repeat this process with every fingerprint you have saved.
5
Tap Require Passcode.
6
Select the amount of time you'd like to allow until your passcode is required. You can select a number of delay times that range from 1 minute to 4 hours.
7
Lock your phone. When you do, the amount of time you selected will be able to pass until you are required to re-enter your passcode to unlock it.
- For example, if you select 1 Minute, you won't be asked for the passcode again if you turn the screen back on before a minute has passed.^{[1]
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