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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

How to Easily Brick an iPhone

February 16, 2016

There's an evil little trick floating around that is a sure-fire way to brick an iOS device. There is a huge flaw in iOS that has many Apple owners pretty upset. As reported by ars technica, "Take a 64-bit iOS device—iPhone 5S or newer, iPad Air or newer, iPad Mini 2 or newer, sixth generation iPod touch or newer—laboriously set its date to January 1, 1970, and reboot. Congratulations: you now have a shiny piece of high-tech hardware that's stuck at the boot screen, showing nothing more than the Apple logo… forever."

So if you really don't like someone, get them to reset the date on their iPhone. If you did fall for the scam and have a bricked iOS device, there is a solution to bring it back to life. You need to buy a special screwdriver to open up the device and disconnect the battery. Of course I'm sure that will invalidate any warranty, but at least your Apple device will come back from the dead.

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