Watch out! iPhone and iPad – enter this date to lock the device – Virtual Poland

(Fig. YouTube / Zach Straley)

This is another case where a software error smartphone iPhone (and iPad) can cause users no small trouble. This time the main character is a certain date, which enter to lock the device.

In the network appeared video , where the iPhone user 6s decided to demonstrate the mechanism. Zach Straley succession passes to the “Settings”, select an item on the “General” and then “Date and Time”. Unchecking the “Set automatically” Zach sets the current date as of January 1, 1970. What do we see now? The user holds the lock screen of the iPhone 6s and turn off the smartphone.

An attempt to restart the iPhone ends up locking the device. The screen displays a distinctive black logo gnawed apple on a white background … and that’s it. There’s nothing more. The user claims that connecting the device to a computer and other attempts do not unlock the smartphone. Employees AppleStore apparently do not know what is happening and exchange equipment.

Looking for a solution in the network, you can come across various conjectures as to the cause strange behavior smartphone. True, no one seems to need to go back to 1970, but the very essence of the occurrence of such an error is interesting. According to Radio Zet , perhaps the date 1 January 1970 is set in the devices as the start of measuring time.

Note: often wrote about internet trolls, who by the way iOS update report on the network, the new version of the allows, for example. … The charge smartphone in a microwave at express pace. Others reported that new iOS suitable iPhone’om … waterproof . Such information flow from crafted and deceptively similar to apple’owskich ads. Probably in this case it may be that soon there will be a fairy tale about access to new functions after entering the above date. Do not do that.

The error applies to Apple devices based on iOS 8, based on 64-bit processors A (X) – A7, A8, A9, A9 (X).

SLK-WP / Zet

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