April 17, 2019
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Writer's iPad locks out for 49 YEARS after 3-year-old son entered the wrong password too many times
An author was accidentally locked out of his iPad by his three year old son for 25,536,442 minutes after the toddler repeatedly keyed in the wrong password.
Evan Osnos, a New Yorker staff writer posted the picture of the baffling error from his iPad on Twitter, the equivalent of being locked out for 49 years. The message read: 'iPad is disabled try again in 25,536,442 minutes.' The number of minutes displayed in the message equates to nearly 49 years and the photo has received over 100 responses so far with some users asking him to 'wait it out'.
The problem does not seem to have been resolved although according to official Apple instructions, entering the wrong password multiple times erases its content.
In the post, Mr Osnos, who is based in Washington, wrote: 'Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it’s our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?'
While some users mocked the situation, with one user Twitter/@Geopilot writing: 'Time travel seems to be your best bet', others tried to be more useful.
One user, @Byron_Mobley, sent a screenshot of text message to someone he claimed to be 'a friend certified by Apple', whose response was: 'Nothing they can do they will never use it again.'
According to the official Apple website, the response might not be far off. Apple wrote: 'Locking yourself out of your iOS device and retrying with the wrong password too many times leads to permanent removal of data from the device. If you enter the wrong passcode on an iOS device too many times, you'll be locked out and a message will say that your device is disabled. At this point, the data on your device has been erased. To recover the use of your device, you'll need to remove your passcode by performing a restore.'
Apple's official instructions were to restore the content of your phone - if you have backed it up - by connecting it to your laptop via iTunes. If the data was not saved however, there is no way of retrieving the information.
Apple does not state exactly how many times a wrong password is entered before the information on the device is erased, although other websites suggest this is 10 times.
Extracted from: www.dailymail.co.uk
