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iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the apple-bugs dept.

lightbox32 writes: Beware of a hoax circling the interwebs, which can be seen by setting your iPhone's date to January 1, 1970. Many people are reporting that doing so will brick the device. It's unclear what exactly causes the issue, but could be related to how iOS stores date and time formats. Jan. 1, 1970 is a value of zero or less than zero, which would make any process that uses a time stamp to fail. Apple is aware of the issue and is looking into it.

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  1. Re:Hoax? by macs4all · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No problem. You can reset your iPhone to factory default by placing it in a microwave oven on high for 2 minutes. ;-)

    They patched that. That reset method now only works on Android phones.