Destroyed iPhones: Apple fixes "1970 bug" with iOS 9.3 update

The "1970 Bug" will be permanently fixed with the next update to iOS 9.3. Already in the current beta version, it is no longer possible to crash his iPhone via date setting.

Destroyed iPhones via simple change of date in the future belong to the past. Already with the current beta of iOS 9.3, it is no longer possible to reproduce this software bug, as MacRumors writes. With the final release of iOS 9.3 you will no date may choose more, that is before the 31 December 2000. Thus, the manufacturer fixes a software problem that the network made the rounds for the first time weeks ago about two.

Affected date bug must apply directly to Apple

Who hired on his iPhone the date until May 1970 or earlier, then could only lament a total crash of its smartphones. Because: After rebooting the iPhone could not go up, but was in a kind of time loop. For sufferers remained as a last resort often only going to the local Apple Store. While there are now a solution for the error code "Error 53", you have to wait a bit for the fix the date bugs.

Release of iOS 9.3 well within the iPhone 5se keynote

The software update iOS 9.3 will resolve this issue and bring, among other new features such as the Night Shift Mode with it. Exactly when the firmware update will be released, is still unclear. Observers expect commonly with a release on the occasion of the iPhone 5se keynote, which will take place on 15 March. By then it will jokers no longer be possible to exploit the "1970 Bug".