How to Set the Pass Code on an iPhone

Video Transcript

"Hey, if you've got as much information in your iPhone as I do; pictures, photographs, contact information, passwords I'll... Oh, wait a minute, no guys; I don't have that stuff in here, no. Like we all do; we need this information at our fingertips, and that's why we have the iPhone, all right, but we want to make sure that stuff is secure. A great way to do that, because we tend to leave things possibly on the counter and walk away, and anybody could come and take a peek; private stuff, is you want to set a password or a passcode on your iPhone. Let me show you how to do that. First thing we do is go ahead and unlock it by pushing that. Now, that's what happened. Anybody can walk up, push the home key, and slide it and unlock it, and then they've got access to all your contacts, all your music, where you've been on the web, your mail, your phone numbers, your messages, everything. So, we want to go to settings here, which is going to be the the gray little gears, the inner working gears of the machine, press on settings, and then we're going to come in here and see the different options. As we come down here we're going to go to the general section cause' this is pretty much general about it, and what we're looking for is Passcode Lock. Now, right now I have it off, so I'm going to press Passcode Lock and I'm going to enter my Passcode. Now, for the sake of this, and don't try to memorize this one because this is not my regular one; 1-2-3-4. Now, it's going to make you reenter it, 1-2-3-4. I know that sounds like the combination an idiot would have on his luggage, but this is just for demonstration purposes only. Now, with the passcode, we got to require the passcode immediately, and then, there we can change the passcode and things like that. Once we navigate away from this screen you need to know the passcode in order to do anything. So, I'm going to go ahead and put it asleep, and now, what happens when we try to wake it up; I hit the home key, oh I'll just slide to unlock it, enter the passcode. Without the wrong one, Wrong Passcode, try again, all right. So, we know our super secret passcode is 1, a 2, 3, 4, whoosh, and she comes alive; right back to where we were over here. Push this button if we were back to main menu, and we are absolutely nice and secure. I know setting passcodes and hitting it every time you may need to use your phone, every time you log into your computer does seem like a pain in the neck, but trust me. There's nothing more of a pain in the neck then having your information, privacy, or identity stolen. So, take the extra step, use four digit password. Keep people out from prying into your stuff. It's me, Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert sayin' stream ya' later."