Lock your iPhone

My iPhone is my personal assistent, my friend, my all time companion, weather consultant, and so much more. Because of all those things on my device are private, I do not want anybody to have a look at.

Lock your iPhone

Like on all other mobile cell phones you can set a lock code. Once it is locked  or fallen asleep by pressing the power button, you need to enter a code to unlock, and make it ready for use, again. To activate this option go to Settings -> General -> Passcode lock. Put in a PIN code. In the same settings, you can set how long it takes until it will be auto-locked either iPhone is unused or after what time it is sent to sleep.

Unlocking

Only with that previously determined code, your iPhone can be made useable after a lock.

Mistake, mistake?!

You have six tries to unlock your iPhone. If you mistake them all, it will be locked for one minute. No, problem! Just try again. Yet another mistake? The time to wait will increase to five minutes, then 15 minutes, followed by one hour! A clever idea would be just to reboot the iPhone, but Apple was clever, too, so this will not help you out. You need to wait until the time is expired!