One Date Could Permanently Brick Your iPhone

10:18 AM

There's an ad-like meme going around, created to look like it's from Apple, telling people that if they set the date on their iPhone to 1/1/1970 and then power-off/power-back-on the iPhone, then it will present with an Easter Egg...a theme that mimics the classic Macintosh look.

iPhone users hoping to travel back in time by setting their clock back to January 1, 1970 are instead rendering their smart devices into fancy paperweights.

Tech website 9to5mac posted a video demonstrating the date bug, which appears to only affect Apple devices with 64-bit processors - meaning iPhone 5S, iPad Air, iPad Mini 2 and the sixth-generation iPod Touch, or newer models of those devices. O.K., let's say your iPhone or iPad is bricked because you changed the date back. If you turn your date and time settings to manual (please don't do this), and scroll the calendar back as far as you can go (seriously, don't do this), you can only go as far back as January 1, 1970.

Unix, and a bunch of Unix-based software (like Apple operating systems!), express time in terms of the number of seconds that have passed since 1/1/70. Many gadgets, including the iPhone, use Unix time as the basis for their clocks. Well, the reason given is if your time zone isn't GMT, your iPhone might interpret a time before January 1, 1970 or in other words, before zero.

Fast forward to 2015 and we've seen the same images again, spreading just this week through Facebook, Twitter, and the like.

Meanwhile, just stay in the present.

A new iPhone bug has popped up that will make the device unusable.

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