“It began as a bad practical joke, but now Apple has confirmed an iOS bug that is no laughing matter,” Gordon Kelly writes for Forbes.
“Posting an update to its support pages, Apple has revealed that changing the date to January 1 1970 on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 8.x or iOS 9.x (including the latest iOS 9.2.1 release) can stop it from turning on the next time it is restarted,” Kelly writes. “It has confirmed a preventative fix for this will be released soon and in the meantime anyone already affected by the bug should contact Apple support (given their devices won’t be able to switch on to receive the update).”
“Of course the obvious question here is: Why would anyone change the date on their device to January 1 1970?” Kelly writes. “The answer: to unlock easter eggs.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Do not set your iOS device’s date to January 1, 1970.
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Does that really work? Let me try it !
Yup! It worked. My phone is Bricked.
😆 – Be sure to watch the video here at MDN of the guy soaking his iPhone in melted crayons. His thinking was equally as insipid. 😉
It doesn’t brick your phone and it’s relatively easy to fix, although you may have to go to the Apple Store and explain why you were so dumb.
LOL on the comment “explain why you were so dumb.” Seriously, I can see all the Genius Bar employees and people around just looking at the person who bricked the iPhone with the 1970 date…Pure comedy.
I want his cute little screwdriver.
Do not under any circumstances ever, ever, ever, ever, ever . . . ever
push that red button.
Don’t even think about it. No. Don’t do it. Really, don’t do it. Not today, not tomorrow. It would be bad, really bad – to do it. So don’t. You will regret it. Seriously, you will. Everyone will say I told you so, and they will laugh at you, for being dumb. Very dumb. So leave it alone and . . . aw man! You had to do it!
What does it do?
No one knows! Maybe something bad? Maybe something good? I guess we’ll never know. Because you’re going to GUARD IT!
Can he resist pushing the button? The BIG button? The big RED button? The big red SHINY button? Can he resist? Can he resist?
NO I CAN’T!!!!! (Pushes button, destroys universe.)
What? No else watched that show?
——RM
Idiots! lol
Another “educated” writer shows his ignorance above:
There is no such word (in standard English) as “preventative.” Period. The word is “preventive.” Sorry. Just sayin’.
Try leaving the mouse over the word preventative and pressing ctrl/cmd/D to see a quick definition.
In the British English version of OSX it shows preventative to be a perfectly valid word which is an alternative to preventive. In England, it would be the more usual option to be used, except in medical environments where preventive is more commonplace.
All of my English dictionaries ( including my two massive volumes of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ) regard both forms of the word as valid and both versions have been found in written form for more than 400 years.
Probably should have said something else. Being on the Internet Grammar Police Force is harder than it looks. Keep screwing up and you’ll be transferred to the Internet Grammar Police Farce.
Androids have millions of malwares, no one cares,
iPhone has one ridiculous flaw, every body loses their mind