How to avoid the problem of bricking the iPhone by date [Cydia]

Last night, my partner Juan put his hands on his head for a new iOS bug, and it was not for less: if we configure a specific date in our iPhone or iPad with 64-bit processor, the device is will brick, which means that you will not be able to start and we cannot restore it. The problem is not that we are going to put it ourselves, we will not be so foolish to do that, but that someone could make us the (damn) joke of setting the fateful date on our device and leave it as a beautiful paperweight.

Yes, there seems to be a solution, as you left in the comments (thanks, Luis V): removing the battery from the device for a couple of minutes, the device can start again but, as you know, accessing the battery of an iPhone is not the simplest task in the world. In the comments of that post you also provided us (thanks, Jaranor) the possible cause, something known as unix-time and that seems to affect Unix-based operating systems. But in this article we are not going to talk more about the subject, if we do not offer a solution to avoid it.

BrickingDate will fix the iPhone date problem

This will please those who defend the jailbreak tooth and nail: as usual, the solution comes from Cydia, Saurik's alternative store. All we have to do is the following:

1. We open Cydia.
2. Let's go to Fuentes.
3. We tap on Edit and then on Add.
4. We add the developer's repository repo.ziph0n.com and we accept.
5. We look for BrickingDate and install the tweak.
6. We restart the device.

Now we can be calm. If someone "nice" sets the date in question, nothing will happen. Of course, I hope for the sake of the majority of users that Apple adds this patch in a future iOS update, lest a graceless joker leave us the iPhone as a brick.