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

submitted 1 month ago by griffinger@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 58 points 1 month ago (4 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.

[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Honestly this sounds like user error. From one of the links in the article:

As the journalist and Apple Store staff tested, if you insert the wrong passcode for 1 to 5 times, there will only be red notifications saying the passcode is wrong, and you needn’t wait to give it another try.

For the 6th time you insert a wrong passcode, it will report, “iPhone is disabled, try again in 1 minute”. And the phone will be locked, and you won’t be able to insert passcode again until 1 minute later.

For the 7th time, the iPhone will show, “iPhone is disabled, try again in 5 minutes”.

For the 8th time, the iPhone will be locked for 15 minutes, and for the 9th time, it will be locked for 60 minutes to insert passcode again.

If you insert the wrong passcode for 10th time, the iPhone will be disabled and you will have to connect it to iTunes to unlock.

Apparently if you jailbreak the iPhone the delays aren’t set correctly (or at least that was the case 10 years ago)?

On top of that, the user couldn’t just wipe the phone because they didn’t want to lose a video that wasn't backed up anywhere else.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago

I get rate limiting the amount of passwors that can be tried (especially when they have a pre-defined limit of 4 or 6 numbers), but going over hours or days between attempts is a bit extreme

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Samsung?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooh an iPhone that's been locked for 50 years, I wonder what iPhones looked like in 1974!

I haven't read this. But I know you can unlock your iPhone using your icloud account.

(Still, happy I switched to android this year)

[–] MenacingPerson@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Ooh an iPhone that's been locked for 50 years, I wonder what iPhones looked like in 1974!

Maybe instead of mocking them, you should try to understand what was said. They said the iphone was locked for another 50 years (future), not that this marks the 50th anniversary of the iphone being locked.