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Tenacious iPhone user finally unlocks phone locked for almost a decade (www.gizmochina.com)

submitted 2 months ago by griffinger@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 60 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I don't understand.

“I have no idea who locked it in 2015,” she said.

So someone can just make your iphone inaccessible for a decade and you can't override it or log in, even if you have the passcode?

On the Apple Support community, one user reported their iPhone had been locked for 50 years. Similarly, a post on 9to5Mac’s forum mentioned an iPhone disabled for “23614974 minutes”—about 45 years.

I'm sorry, what? I guess I'll just add this to my list of reasons I'm glad I use Android. JFC.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, what? I guess I'll just add this to my list of reasons I'm glad I use Android

My old Sony android phone did a factory reset in my pocket because I supposedly got the unlock code wrong a few times.

I never touched the damned thing and the first I knew about it was because my pocket felt warm.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Hm. I'll make sure not to enable that setting

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Samsung?

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