A dangerous "trick" has just started to circulate on the net that can leave any iPhone (with 64-bit chip) completely disabled, a trick that is based on changing the date of the device to January 1 1970.
Performing this action will make your iPhone not reboot the next time you turn it off, leaving the device trapped in the apple logo that appears during startup and EYE, no possibility of being recovered from iTunes.
The problem is serious and seems to be related to time zone, some users report that after a few hours the device has returned to itself and has allowed it to be started, although its operation was extremely slow, however this has allowed them to readjust the date so that the iPhone recovers from abuse and not lose the data stored in the.
It seems that this bug is only present in lso devices with a 64-bit architecture chip, this ranges from iPhone 5s onwards, iPad Air onwards (including iPad Pro) and XNUMXth generation iPod Touch.
Apparently many users are going to take advantage of this bug to show up at an Apple Store and request a change of device taking advantage of the fact that this leaves it unusable, this is something that Apple is going to take seriously since there is no way to solve this error once it has been executed and this can cost them to replace many iPhones for free claiming that it is a factory defect or not the fault of the user and thus getting rid of devices with broken screens or damaged components.
Below you have a explanatory video where the process is shown:
Surely this error will be fixed in the next days or weeks in the form of a software update, perhaps this motivates Apple to hurry the development of iOS 9.3We will surely have an official statement in the next few hours.
From Actualidad iPhone We can only recommend one thing, and that is to protect the device well with a good password To prevent anyone with bad intentions from playing tricks on you, we also recommend make a backup of your devices for what may happen, in this way you make sure you do not lose important data.
Is it an informational or opinion article?
With all due respect, it is fully informative, if there is any aspect in which it is not to your liking you can express it in a polite way without disrespecting the name of the blog, since we are publishing last minute information in a hurry just to alert you and Don't let any troll come and block your iPhone ...
Thanks Juan butt, the truth is that I really like this blog, you put a lot of cane into it with interesting and very current news, you are in a hurry with the articles and that is appreciated not like other blogs, and they are also interesting articles. Keep going.
Thank you for your support, comments like yours feed our desire to work every day to provide you with all the information that surrounds our favorite devices, really, thank you for reading us and taking the time to give us comments like this 😀
Juan Thank you for taking your time to advise
PS: increase the number of entries on the main page, that with so many articles are lost to the next page giving the feeling that I have read all the new articles and it is not like that, today you have published 9 articles among all, I am a drug addict of The information you publish and I don't want to miss anything, to top it off page 2, is like a bug, and I get it in a mobile version, which has a widget with a not very intuitive operation, I don't think it's a little weird, it's not normal that by default The page shows 5 articles when you publish more than 8 daily, for the person in charge of the web I leave it there 🙂
Are you asshole?
Thanks for the info, it is appreciated in case I will not touch anything of the date, and what an error of these characteristics on the part of the apple.
And not even entering safe mode can ???
I mean, the iPhone is locked forever ... incredible ..
According to the information we have, there is no way (nor by forcing the restart), it would be interesting to know if, as you say, putting it in DFU mode allows you to restore the device, however and unfortunately we cannot do tests (as you will understand), already that we risk losing our device: 'D
It may be, I will not try it, but it happened to me with an old Mac, about 5 years ago: I set the date of 1980 to install a pirate program, and it accidentally restarted by itself; When booting there was no way, and I had to reinstall all the mac, programs, everything, and I lost what was inside, photos, programs, jobs…. I see that they keep falling into the same error ...
I think the answer is here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
Very interesting to know that information, thanks for the contribution, it would be interesting to see if this failure is not of iOS but of all Unix-based systems and therefore also affects Linux and Mac OS X 😀
Thank you very much for the information as this is very serious. Greetings and keep reporting all the details.
A doubt. I have a black iPhone 5S but with the white screen, changed in an unofficial site, so, although I have some warranty left, it is invalid given the characteristics of the device (black and white). If I do that and take it to an Apple Store, will they change it for me?
If the warranty has been invalidated by an unauthorized repair, you will no longer be able to resort to it, unless you manage to put the old screen in and they do not realize it, something that is quite unlikely 🙁
Go fabric, it is like when a pc runs out of date and the browsers do not work because the certificates are not "valid" since they are expired.
It could be that the entire security and encryption system believes that it has fake software because it cannot validate the date, too "modern" for its current date.
It is not a permanent brick. Disconnecting the battery from the board for a couple of minutes, the device reboots without problems.
Interesting clarification Luis, thanks for the mention, however the iPhone is a device with a "non-stable battery", so the most sensible thing to do this time is to write it off and go to the warranty whenever you have it, instead of opening it with the risk of damaging it and losing the warranty 😀
This is totally false. I have tried it with an iPhone 6 plus nothing, nothing happens….
Go «eggs» you have Toni 🙂
I have done it on an i6 plus and it effectively crashes
Have you been able to fix it with what Luis said?
Is it difficult for you to indicate where you got the information from? Because seeing that you have published it later than many web pages and blogs, I don't think you have discovered it one rainy and boring day trying to change the date to the 70s.
It is not wrong to put, but in the fourth paragraph there is incorrect information ... it says that you can request a change of terminal even with the broken screen or what is the same, with some similar fault related to a blow or mishandling of the device . And that is not true, no matter how much you arrive at an Apple Store and tell them the movie you want, whether the mobile does not turn on or is disabled if it has an apparent hardware damage such as a broken screen or a blow, they will automatically deny you the Apple limited warranty. I know from my own experience, both in the Apple Store and through AppleCare or your own SAT, they clean their hands completely. Even if the damage is only cosmetic, they use it as an excuse to reject the warranty. Therefore, I do not see it correct to give false information to readers. As I say it has happened to me and even with the iPhone working because it had a small side blow ... EYE! no broken screen or anything, (the fault was a general malfunction of the terminal). They argued that the cosmetic damage revoked the warranty and they did not take charge, this is so check it.