Since 2014, iPhone passcodes serve as the ‘first line of defense’ against intruders. These 4 or 6 digit codes are quite difficult to crack, and multiple attempts of entering passcodes will wipe the device.
iPhone limits the number of attempts to enter a passcode. However, a security researcher, Matthew Hickey, has discovered an easy way to bypass this limit. According to him, instead of entering combinations of multiple four or six-digit codes, a single long string with various supposed codes (without spaces) will bypass the limit. This can be done by connecting the device to a computer.
Hickey demonstrated this phenomenon in a video, which he also shared on Twitter.