Have you ever thought that you will disable your phone after entering the wrong passcode for a several times? This is not a joke but a case which happened in Shanghai recently.
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What's going on?
A two-year-old boy in Shanghai disabled his mother’s iPhone for the equivalent of 25,114,984 minutes after playing with it and repeatedly entering the wrong passcode, according to a Chinese media report.
How long is 25,114,984 minutes?
25114980÷60÷24÷365=？
The answer is about 47 years!
How did it happen?
The incident happened in January after the phone was given to the child to watch educational videos online.
The mother returned home one day and when she checked the phone found it had been disabled for 25 million minutes by pressing keys repeatedly when the handset requested the passcode be inputted. Each time the wrong keys were pressed the phone was disabled for a period of time.
Apple Store responded to this case
A phone technician at an Apple store in Shanghai was quoted as saying that the woman could either wait years to try to input her passcode again or wipe the contents of the handset clean and then reinstall files.
The technician, named as Wei Chunlong, also told that there had been cases of phones locked for the equivalent of over 80 years by the same method.
In this woman’s case, the only way out [without waiting] is to erase all the phone data and do a factory reset.
It sparked a debate online in China
The customer, who was only identified by her family name Lu, has waited for two months but has seen no sign of the problem rectifying itself, the report said.
I couldn’t really wait for 47 years and tell my grandchild it was your father’s mistake, the woman was quoted as saying.
Some parents said the mother should never have allowed her child to play with the phone alone.
Others said she should have backed up the data stored on her phone elsewhere so that if something went wrong she could easily retrieve it.
Source: SCMP
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