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Fatboy70805
New Participant
October 27, 2025
Question

Lock page pattern

 My oculus recently suggested for security to set a pattern. I set a pattern with the dots, and then it locked me out. And will not let me back in, because pattern on security screen of dots is different than pattern that I set up pattern on the screen it had me set pattern on looks like a regular telephone dots.The sign in screen.I went to does not look like that.I am locked out now

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    steve40
    steve40
    Honored Contributor
    October 27, 2025

    My oculus

    Specifically, which headset model do you mean? "my oculus" is meaningless.

    You're supposed to draw the pattern again on the grid to unlock the headset (the linked video is 2 years old, so the phone app will be a bit different now). Even if the grid shown is a bit different, you should just need to draw the same pattern shape.

    My Quest 3 only has an option to set a passcode, not draw a pattern. Is it possible your phone app or headset software is very out of date?

    If you still can't figure it out, you might be able to reset the pattern from the Meta Horizon app on your mobile phone. You can see in the video there is a "reset pattern" option.

    Otherwise, the only way to get back into the headset would be to do a Factory Reset and then set up your headset from scratch.

    1. Turn off your Oculus Quest.
    2. Hold the power and volume (-) button on your headset down simultaneously until the boot screen loads on your headset.
    3. Use the volume buttons on your headset to highlight Factory Reset and press the power button.
    4. Use the volume buttons on your headset to highlight Yes and press the power button.
      Choleni
      Choleni
      Honored Contributor
      October 27, 2025
      steve_40 wrote:

      Otherwise, the only way to get back into the headset would be to do a Factory Reset and then set up your headset from scratch.

      Yes, that's the only way to get rid of the pattern.... nothing in the phone app or on web page can help.

        TheAlmightyChub
        New Participant
        November 9, 2025

        Did you find a fix outside of factory resetting?

        Choleni
        Choleni
        Honored Contributor
        November 9, 2025

        Hi The.Almighty.Chub​ 🙂

        You can wait if an update will give back the same grid that you used to create the pattern..... but who knows when this will be or if an update will even change the grid🤷‍♀️

        Factory reset the only way to get rid of the pattern, so if you want an immediately solution......

        Jumper1776
        New Participant
        November 9, 2025

        I had the same issue and eventually gave in and did the reset. Quest gave me a 3 by 3 (9 dot) pattern to set up the unlock code and the next time tried to sign in the pattern was a different  8 dot and pattern.  Makes me distrust Meta.

          carjones51
          Participant
          November 10, 2025

          The same thing has happened to me. I've contacted Meta and they say I need to factory reset, which will cause me to lose all progress on all my games. How is that the only option? It's ridiculous. This is a Meta issue. They need to fix it. They need to ensure users see the actual grid pattern we were shown during setup. What really troubles me is I was offered this option last week, and this issue has been occurring for years?!?! Why in the world is the option still being offered to users? 

          Choleni
          Choleni
          Honored Contributor
          November 10, 2025

          Hi carjones51​ 🙂

          You don't have to worry about loosing your game progress. Many games are supporting cloud back up. You can just continue your games after  re-downloading them,

          You can check your cloud back-ups here:

          cloud-backup

          carjones51 wrote:

          What really troubles me is I was offered this option last week, and this issue has been occurring for years?!?

          Not sure what you mean by that🤔

          As far as I know the misaligned pattern occurred after the last update a few weeks ago...... not years ago.

            carjones51
            Participant
            November 13, 2025

            I didn't have cloud backup on so unless I can back up my game progress from the app or something, I think I'm screwed!! 😔

            When I was researching this issue . . . I saw Reddit posts from THREE YEARS AGO w/folks complaining about the changed lock pattern! 

              mychataa
              mychataa
              Up and Coming
              November 11, 2025

              I'm having the same problem. I hadn't set a pattern lock before, but after updating to v81, Quest3 notified me that setting a pattern lock would be more secure, so I did. I set a 3x3 pattern, but after restarting, it's a diamond pattern, and I can't unlock it no matter how many times I try.

              Ugh, how could I make such a basic mistake?

              carjones51
              Participant
              November 13, 2025

              I hear you! I'm on a Quest 2, and the option was offered to me for the first time last week. I didn't need it, but I did it and now I can't even use the headset w/o losing all my game progress. I'm beyond frustrated! 

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