Hoax tricks Apple product users to change date to 1970

Feb 14, 2016, 07:36

First, it was the CrashSafari bug, then came the Apple manufactured Error 53, and now there is this 'time bug'.

iPhone users probably aren't aware, but by setting it to a specific date, you can actually kill your device.

Warning- Do not set your iPhone clock to January 1, 1970.

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When the date of a 64-bit iOS device is set to January 1, 1970, the device will fail to boot.

A bug has been discovered on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches with operating systems 8.0 and up, causing the devices to crash when they are manually set to the oldest date possible. To make a long story short, Unix tells time by counting every second that has elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970.

But, why will it render iPhone useless?

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Now, why would scrolling all the way back to January 1, 1970 (00:00:00 in Unix time) turn your iPhone into a brick? Though Unix time can be negative, possibility exist that something related to the time zones is crashing the iPhone.

There is a new hoax going around that could break your iPhone for good. Perhaps it was some Apple engineer throwing in his idea of a joke thinking no one would even think about doing this. But don't fall for the recent claims for one hidden in your iPhone: if you attempt it, you'll brick your device.

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