Error 53 basically bricks any iPhone and makes it unusable.
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If you have been using an iPhone for long and if it has been repaired by a third-party service centre other than Apple’s own, you might want to think more than twice before you update your iPhone to the next iOS version.
The company has recommended users contact Apple Support for help.
Each home button with a Touch ID sensor is paired to a specific iPhone, meaning the button can only work with iPhone it is paired with.
So what does this mean for you if you’re experiencing this error? However, a third-party fix won’t do that, and the phone will therefore shut itself down to ensure that it stays safe.
Going by the information shared by affected users, the “Error 53” message seemingly pops up after a repaired new iPhone or iPad is updated.
Many iPhone 6 customers have been discussing error 53 online.
This should be a great hit among the users because it will save them the cost of repairing the iPhones also get back some cash through the trade in.
“The whole thing is extraordinary”, said photographer Antonio Olmos, speaking to The Guardian.
The security feature is an added layer that Apple has provided in order to safeguard the user’s data on it. A hacker can get past the Touch ID fingerprint by simply replacing the sensor/home button on the device. So, it’s possible that something could go wrong inside your device-like when The Daily Dot’s Mike Wehner noticed his Touch ID sensor was acting up-and that could eventually trigger an Error 53, even though Wehner didn’t actually do anything to cause it himself.
Apple says that the error appears to protect customers, but thousands of users are claiming that it has rendered their iPhones useless, and any data kept within is lost without hope of retrieval.
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The bug resurfaced when a journalist, who broke his phone screen while covering a refugee crisis was forced to get it repaired in a third-party store. According to iCracked’s Reuben Esparza, who wrote about the error in November, it’s still a mystery to many, but the error, he says, “is the result of a hardware failure somewhere within the home button assembly”.
