Don’t Tell Your iPhone That It’s 1970

The Guardian broke the story last week, reporting that thousands of iPhone 6 users were victims of Error 53.

The bug was first revealed in a video on YouTube by Zach Straley, which shows an iPhone 6 crashing simply by resetting the date.

Filed by law firm PCVA to the US District Court for the North District of California, the lawsuit takes issue with how Apple quietly introduced Error 53 through a software update.

The Apple Watch could soon turn into an automatically adjusting volume control for your iPhone.

People who have had their home button on their iPhone repaired by someone other than Apple and then updated to iOS 9 are greeted with an Error 53 message. MacRumors has, however, heard from a retail source that certain Apple Stores have received the go ahead from Apple to replace third-party screens and other components to resolve the issue.

Apple Inc. has begun offering trade-in credit for damaged iPhones, a strategy that could encourage people to buy newer models rather than try to fix or bear with their current devices.

Apple could not immediately be reached for comment.

Until Apple addresses this issue and provides repairers with the tools they need to conduct repairs that don’t brick your iPhone, you’ll need to work around this frustrating issue.

Apple has been disabling iPhones which have been fixed by third parties and the essential problem happens when a Touch ID scanner can’t synchronize with the processor of the very iPhone. According to the complaint, Apple has declined to fix devices under warranty since it was a problem caused by the consumer using a non-approved fix service.

What to do if I encounter Error 53? Apple says that when the Touch ID validation check fails the device is disabled to protect the Touch ID and the Secure Enclave that stores the customer fingerprint information.

Apple did not respond to questions raised in the ACCC statement, but has provided links to the ID Touch and Error 53 support pages on its website.

The second patent is “Method and Apparatus for Providing Tactile Sensations” and Immersion is claiming that Apple’s iPhones copy this by delivering vibration responses for various touches, like when you press down on the phone’s screen.

Lawyers in the U.S believe that Apple could even be sued for having customers left with a bricked, unusable phone that they paid so much for.