Curious date bug can brick your iPhone pretty badly

13 February, 2016
A rather intriguing phenomenon has been circulating reddit and it has to do with a recently discovered vulnerability affecting most current iPhones. It appears that if you set the date on a 64-bit iOS device to January 1 1970 and then restart it, you get a vicious boot loop. Worse yet, simply restoring the unit through DFU can't fix the issues and you will most likely end up on a trip to the nearest Apple Store.

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  • w42
  • 13 Feb 2016

I am so much tempted to go to an apple store and test out few demo phones :p

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    • RAY
    • v{u
    • 13 Feb 2016

    AnonD-289575, 13 Feb 2016So now iPhone users can't even change date without apple's ... morewho the hack in the world set a time on there phones 40 back? lagdroid fans even dont have sence, yes its a bug it will fix with next upadate, if android had this issuse google will push a update to nexus and other OEMs phone will get the update after 40 years from now

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      • Anonymous
      • UD{
      • 13 Feb 2016

      AnonD-89438, 13 Feb 2016It's a surprise bug :) But, nothing to worry about. It will... moreWell someone did just for curiosity and amusement before and most unlocked devices arent connected to a network for the correct time and date to sinc so it is possible heck i have to admit that i tried that before to set the date to max.

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        • AnonD-5197
        • 86w
        • 13 Feb 2016

        Cool. Time troll some friends and send them to the Apple store!

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          • AnonD-89438
          • X{d
          • 13 Feb 2016

          It's a surprise bug :) But, nothing to worry about. It will be fixed in no time via software update.

          Anyway, why would I set my phone's time to 40 years back?

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            • Anonymous
            • 9GH
            • 13 Feb 2016

            Oh no! what ever will we do?? we can't set the date to 40 years ago!

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              • Xu4
              • 13 Feb 2016

              So now iPhone users can't even change date without apple's concern.... What next... Call only whom apple wants😁😁😁

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                • AnonD-322352
                • KZ8
                • 13 Feb 2016

                Call. Of. The. Void.