Apple acknowledges iPhone bricking ‘1970 date’ trojan horse, says upcoming utility update will repair

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closing week, it became found that setting your iOS gadget system date and time back to January 1st 1970 would crash your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch conveniently bricking it. setting the date again this a long way would keep away from the iPhone or different iOS machine from booting up except the battery died.

AppleCare has been flooded with people bringing of their gadgets after trying out this bug … Now, Apple has formally stated the issue on its Apple aid web site. The enterprise says it is going to unencumber an upcoming utility update to stay away from this issue from affecting iOS instruments sooner or later.

Apple's comment on the condition is short, but it claims that the trojan horse can cause iPhone crashing with any date before may additionally 1970.

Manually altering the date to may additionally 1970 or previous can stay away from your iOS gadget from turning on after a restart.

the brand new page suggests anyone affected by the difficulty should still contact Apple aid for tips. we now have heard combined signals from readers related to help. Some people have been in a position to get full equipment replacements on the Genius Bar on the returned off this malicious program, whereas others have been became away.

we now have additionally heard that this bug has caused a big headache for Apple store employees in the past week, as people intentionally set the date returned on demo iPhones and iPads in retail shops to break the items on the benches.

It isn't clear what Apple means by using an 'upcoming utility update', whether it'll wait except iOS 9.three (anticipated to be launched in March with a number of new features) or push an earlier OTA trojan horse-fix release like iOS 9.2.2 to resolve the date bricking issue sooner.

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