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2023 Author: Donald Evans | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 05:03
Can you imagine that changing a simple setting on your iPhone would render it useless? Well putting the date January 1, 1970 on an iPhone or iPad completely blocks it Right now, there seems to be no solution to the problem. Of course, this error will not appear to you without further ado, because it does not make much sense to choose a date prior to the creation of the device itself.
If we go to the iOS settings and on the date we choose January 1, 1970, our device will be disabled. When we turn it off and turn it back on it will be stuck on the loading screen, with the Apple logo as the only image. We will not be able to do anything with it, it will not help to force a restart or return to factory settings from iTunes with a computer.
This only happens on iPhones and iPads with 64-bit versions of iOS. In practice, that means most of the devices users have today.
We strongly recommend not to try setting the date of your iPhone to January 1, 1970 The news has jumped on the popular portal Reddit, and we have carried it out to confirm its veracity. We now have a bricked iOS device, waiting for Apple to fix the problem.
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Why did January 1, 1970 affect the iPhone?
Midnight on January 1, 1970 is when calendars begin for many electronic devices. In the format named " UNIX time" it is the starting day, and in fact the iPhone does not work with earlier dates. In the past, some users had problems with iOS because their date was changed to this day by itself, but it is the first time that there are crashes.
So putting the date January 1, 1970 on an iPhone blocks it completely. Let's hope Apple fixes the bug soon, or a lot of funny users will start blocking their demo units in stores. We recommend that you do not try what we explain in this article, because you can be left without your iPhone, and it is not the only problem that can render it useless.
What do you think putting the date January 1, 1970 on an iPhone blocks it? Is this a serious bug, or a small bug that a normal user will never encounter?
