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How to change iPhone root password

There are 2 ways for you to change iPhone root password: on the iPhone itself or on your PC. This guide tells you how to change your iPhone root password on iPhone or on Mac computer and Windows Computer.

On the iPhone:

The app to use on the iPhone is called MobileTerminal and it’s available for free in the Cydia store.

Once you have MobileTerminal installed, launch it and you should see a prompt saying this or similar:

iPhoneName: ~ Mobile$

At that prompt, type: passwd

You’ll be prompted for the ‘old’ (current) password for the mobile user. Enter this as the old password: alpine

You’ll then be prompted to enter the new password – so just type in your desired new password. Use good password principles if possible (long and stong). You will not see characters appearing on the screen as you type – that’s normal, not a concern.

You’ll then be prompted to re-enter the new password. Do that.

You should then be returned to the Mobile$ prompt that you started on when opening the MobileTerminal app. There’s no success message to say the password was changed – but if you’re returned to the prompt and do not get an error, the change was successful. And you’re done with change for the mobile account.

The second primary admin account for the iPhone is called root – so now you need to change that as well.

Type this to switch to the root user: login root

You’ll be prompted for the root user’s current password. Enter this: alpine

Type this to start the password change routine again: passwd

Enter the old password for root (it is ‘alpine’, same as for the mobile user) and enter your desired new password twice, just as you did for the mobile account

On a Mac:

Find your iPhone’s IP address so that you know where you need to connect to. To do this, go to the Settings app > WiFi > tap on the blue arrow to the right-hand side of the WiFi network you’re currently on (the one with a check next to it) > make a note of the IP Address entry listed there.

On many home WiFi networks the address will be something like 192.168.1.x – so we’ll use that in the command instructions below – remember to use your own IP address when doing this though.

Use the Terminal app or your favorite replacement for it (I use iTerm) and open a new window

Type this to connect as root to your iPhone: ssh root@192.168.1.x

You’ll be prompted for the root user’s current password. Enter this: alpine

Type this to start on changing the password for the root user: passwd

Type the old password (alpine) and new password (twice) as per the instructions above for the iPhone.

Once you have changed the root user’s password, type this to switch to the mobile user: login mobile

Type this to start the password change for this user: passwd

Type the old password (alpine) and new password (twice) as per the instructions above for the iPhone.

Type this to end your remote session with the iPhone: exit

On a Windows PC

Find your iPhone’s IP address so that you know where you need to connect to. To do this, go to the Settings app > WiFi > tap on the blue arrow to the right-hand side of the WiFi network you’re currently on (the one with a check next to it) > make a note of the IP Address entry listed there.

On many home WiFi networks the address will be something like 192.168.1.x – so we’ll use that in the command instructions below – remember to use your own IP address when doing this though.

Use Putty (free to download on the web) or your preferred app to make an ssh connection to the iPhone

Use 192.168.1.x (your iPhone’s IP address) as the host name or server name to connect to. Choose ssh as the connection method, SFTP as the protocol, and 22 as the port number.

Use the username root to connect with and alpine as its password

When you have connected and have a terminal window open type this to start your password change for the root user: passwd

Type the old password (alpine) and new password (twice) as per the instructions above for the iPhone.

Once you have changed the root user’s password, type this to switch to the mobile user: login mobile

Type this to start the password change for this user: passwd

Type the old password (alpine) and new password (twice) as per the instructions above for the iPhone.

Type this to end your remote session with the iPhone: exit

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