One Date Could Permanently Brick Your iPhone

It can’t be fixed except by an Apple Store, which will most likely simply offer a replacement.

Watch out: setting the time and date on an Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod to January 1, 1970, may brick the thing. Merely setting the iPhone calendar to the date of January 1, 1970 is fatal to the famous smartphone.

Warning- Do not set your iPhone clock to January 1, 1970.

Internet trolls have been widely sharing images which encourage users to set their iPhone date back 46 years in order to get a special retro skin on their device.

After changing the date and turn the phone off, it is impossible to turn it back. Though Unix time can be negative, possibility exist that something related to the time zones is crashing the iPhone. Share this post with friends and family to make sure they don’t accidentally destroy their Apple devices!

We don’t know why you would deliberately brick your iPhone, and we strongly suggest you don’t, but if you do want to, this is how. Of course, someone running a malicious NTP time server on a network could configure iDevices to set their clocks back to the dodgy date automatically. But powering off the phone and then on again results in a perpetual greeting screen, with the Apple logo just staring back at you for the rest of time. Wired reports it’s a bug that appears to be affecting 64-bit iOS devices, such as the iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and other newer models.