by Brianna Foley @brifoleyy
February 17, 2016
January 1, 1970: The Date That Could Destroy Your Life...
Did you know that your iPhone, and every other iPhone out there, really despises the date January 1, 1970? So much so, that if you attempt to set your phone to this forbidden date your precious iPhone will crash. Forever.
There seems to be a bug in
the newest iPhone update that could permanently damage your
device. (Don't try this at home, kids) You can manually change the date
and time easily in your settings. The farthest you can go back is ironically
the taboo date of January 1, 1970. (Again, don't attempt to do this)
There have been a few videos
created that demonstrate this insane iPhone technical difficulty,
they must not love their iPhone too much, the videos show that after they
change the date the iPhone works immediately until powered off and
then... it's the end of that iPhone's life. The phone will power on but the
only thing that appears is the white background with the glaring apple
staring at you.
A February 12, 2016 article tried to figure
out what was causing this strange iPhone crashing but unfortunately they came
up blank. "It's not totally clear why the crash is happening. It's not at
all obvious why anyone even bothered trying to set an iPhone's clock back 46
years."
Some have been able to
attempt this and it not phase their phone due to time zone differences.
According to a recent Reddit article Apple has been alerted of this
problem and they are working on a fix.
