Well, that’s one way to beat a smartphone addiction.
The South China Morning Post reports a Shanghai mom is locked out of her iPhone for the next 47 years after her 2-year-old son repeatedly entered the wrong passcode. The mom, identified only as Lu, gave her son the phone to watch educational videos online.
When she got it back, the phone bore a notification reading “iPhone is disabled, try again in 25,114,984 minutes,” according to the Global Times. Apparently the lockout time increased every time the toddler entered the wrong passcode.
A technician at an Apple Store in Shanghai told Lu she had two options: do a factory reset on her iPhone and lose all her files or wait the 47 years until she can use it again.
“I can’t really wait for 47 years and tell my grandchild it was your father’s mistake,” the Straits Times quotes Lu as saying. Regardless, she’s apparently found herself unable to go through with the factory reset and is now two months into her long wait for the phone to unlock.
The Apple Store technician says Lu’s case is nothing; he’s seen iPhones locked for over 80 years.
Posts: 18095 | Location: Stuck at home | Registered: January 02, 2015
I do not understand why people don’t use cloud services to keep their phones backed up. If Ms. Lu had iCloud backup turned on, she could just do the reset, restore the phone, and be done with it.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus
Posts: 8301 | Location: Utah | Registered: December 18, 2008
Originally posted by sigcrazy7: I do not understand why people don’t use cloud services to keep their phones backed up. If Ms. Lu had iCloud backup turned on, she could just do the reset, restore the phone, and be done with it.
If she's in China she probably can't use icloud due to government restrictions.
Originally posted by sigcrazy7: I do not understand why people don’t use cloud services to keep their phones backed up. If Ms. Lu had iCloud backup turned on, she could just do the reset, restore the phone, and be done with it.
She has so many pix of her and her boyfriend, that she doesn't want her husband to see. ICloud backup would be fatal, for her
Posts: 3100 | Location: Georgia... 45 Minutes from everywhere....... | Registered: July 05, 2005
My Old iPhone 4 I keep around with internet, phone and texting disabled and just games so my kids can play it. They managed to lock it for 10,000 minutes. When I explained that was a week of no games they agreed to not to try and unlock it without permission.
