How to Eliminate or Bypass Passwords in Canon Cameras
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Canon's newest cameras as of late 2025, as well as updated firmware for every older camera, now requires we set a password to use our cameras, and requires we enter this new password every time we wake up our camera!
Nooo!
There's an easy way around this: you do have to set a password the first time (mine is 123456), and the next time you turn on your camera, enter the password then tap the DO NOT ASK ME AGAIN option, make sure that there is a check mark next to it, hit OK, and you'll never see it again.
You do have to be sure that the DO NOT ASK ME AGAIN box is checked and you do have to hit OK for this setting to take effect.
This foolishness is from European privacy paranoia; they're actually concerned that you might have someone's face stored in the Favorite Faces section of the autofocus system, and that some enterprising hacker would go to the trouble of stealing this "personal information" (facial parameters) from your camera instead just pulling their profile pictures from Facebook — the very name of which implies where people go to harvest facial recognition data along with their names, addresses and travel histories obviously lacking from the data in your camera.
This is only to protect the supposedly sensitive personal information stored in your camera; it does nothing to deter theft since you always can select the RESET CAMERA option on the same screen as the DO NOT ASK ME AGAIN option, which will reset the camera and start from scratch, erasing that precious facial data.
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