Sources close to Apple say all bugs from 1970 are fixed

Has the curse of 1970 come to an end or not? Let's recap for those who don't know what I'm talking about: a bug was discovered in which if we set a specific date of 1970 on an iPhone, it might not start again after turning it off. This first 1970 bug it was fixed as part of the iOS 9.3 update, but just yesterday we discovered that there was a variation of the original 1970 bug that could cause the same effect when connecting to a Wi-Fi network posing as one of the networks we had connected to in the past.

The discoverers of the new bug from 1970 or the variation of the first reported to Apple and agreed not to publish their discovery until the Cupertino company had corrected the error. Yesterday the existence of the variation was made public and it was believed that it affected devices with iOS 9.3 and earlier. In other words, it was believed to have been fixed in iOS 9.3.1, but it seems that this information was not entirely true.

There is no longer any bug from 1970

Sources close to Apple have confirmed that both the original bug and its variation were fixed in iOS 9.3. This would have been communicated to the blog where Mark Gurman works, 9to5mac, so if we take into account the number of leaks that the young reporter has made, we can say that it is something official.

Thus, users who have iOS 9.3 or later installed on their iPhone will no longer have any problems related to 1970. On the other hand, those who have iOS 9.2.x or earlier are in danger that they leave their iPhone as a precious paperweight. In any case, any iPhone that has been locked by this means can be restored and everything will go back to being as if nothing had ever happened to it.