“I changed the time to January 1st 1970”, NBC News quotes one poor iPhone user’s complaint to Apple.
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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.
We’re not sure why this bug even exists in iOS but then we’re not even sure why anyone would set their device to such a specific date anyway.
People – presumably bored people, or the same people who bent their iPhones for a laugh – have discovered that if you set the date on your iPhone to 1 January, 1970, it will prevent it from booting up again. That’s because Unix time which is use by iPhone as basis for its clocks, began at midnight GMT on January 1, 1970, Unix time has been counting every second since then. Many gadgets, including the iPhone, use Unix time as the basis for their clocks. According to the Guardian, users can protect themselves with a series of tweaks, such as manually setting their time and date, not enabling automatic time changes, and not turning off their iPhone or iPads. Trying to restart the device seems to only bring back the Apple logo screen, where it apparently gets permanently stuck.
Apple on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, announced the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.
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A precautionary tip for all you iPhoners! just stay in the present, that way is better for your iPhone device.
