[ericbarrett]

A few weeks ago my house sprang a massive leak in the roof during a rainstorm, just as I was preparing for a week-long business trip. I got so stressed, the next morning I forgot the passcode I'd been typing into my iPhone for the last five years. Three days of carefully writing down my attempts didn't work—I hit the ten-mistake limit and the phone auto-wiped.

[anonzzzies]

I invalidated my debit card in a similar event. I used it hours before but suddenly for the life of me I couldn’t remember the 4 digits and nor could my fingers. It was after I heard about a death of a relative. Eventually I remembered but the card was already useless and a new one had been dispatched to me.

[carlmr]

Especially that. I forgot my pin once in a stressful situation as well, and that wiped my brain.

I ordered a new SIM card which was luckily enough. But sometimes you store something in muscle memory, not number memory.

[eviks]

Yeah, 10 is a stupidly low limit, it won't save you from some hackers, and it won't help you much when you forget

[plonq]

Something similar happened to me (though I did eventually remember). Now I always save PINs and passcodes in a password manager