Error 53 : Updating to Latest iOS May Brick Your iPhone

You might think that this all seems reasonable, but there is a problem here – should you be on holiday or whatever, and your phone breaks and there’s no official Apple store around, if your phone breaks and you need it fixed, you’ll be penalised.

One other perplexing issue is that a few of the users have also reported error 53 issues without any third party repairs being done to their iPhones at all. When he reached London, the photographer took his phone to the Apple Store where he faced disappointment because the staff told him there is nothing they can do.

In a statement, an Apple spokesperson said Error 53 is the result of a stringent security feature installed on the latest iPhone model.

Apple detailed that once iOS 9 finds a mismatch in the components, the Touch ID and the Apple Pay is automatically disabled.

The Cupertino based tech has confirmed about the “Error 53”, saying that the message is actually the company’s technique of preventing Touch ID-related security breaches.

Apple advise all customers who have fallen victim to the Error 53 message to contact the support team.

[Apple’s] Touch ID sensor is uniquely tied to the iOS device so that a thief couldn’t do something like snag your phone, replace the sensor and then have access to all the credit cards you’ve linked to Apple Pay.

I’m your phone your fingerprints would be placed in a sort of vault known as the secure Enclave which can not be opened or broken by Apple or by any other phone. That is what happened to USA technology writer Mike Wehner a year ago when his iPhone 6 suffered intermittent problems with the Touch ID sensor.

When the home button is replaced by a repairer that is unauthorized by Apple Inc.

What’s far more hard to address is the sense of entitlement some people have towards Apple, even if they don’t use the company’s products. The company has asked the customers impacted by Error 53 to contact customer support for help on the issue. With a successive update or restore, additional security checks will result in an “Error 53” being displayed. For an in-depth explanation of Error 53, read this article from The Daily Dot.

Error 53 isn’t something that just appeared.

The reason is that apple is keeping a check whether the customer has got their handset repaired by a third party service center or not hence violating their privacy.