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c/technology · by griffinger@discuss.tchncs.de · 1y

Tenacious iPhone user finally unlocks phone locked for almost a decade

https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/09/23/iphone-user-finally-unlocks-phone-locked-for-almost-a-decade/

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20 Comments

nulluser@programming.dev · 60 pts · 1y (7 replies)

I don't understand.

“I have no idea who locked it in 2015,” she said.

So someone can just make your iphone inaccessible for a decade and you can't override it or log in, even if you have the passcode?

On the Apple Support community, one user reported their iPhone had been locked for 50 years. Similarly, a post on 9to5Mac’s forum mentioned an iPhone disabled for “23614974 minutes”—about 45 years.

I'm sorry, what? I guess I'll just add this to my list of reasons I'm glad I use Android. JFC.

macarthur_park@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1y

Honestly this sounds like user error. From one of the links in the article:

As the journalist and Apple Store staff tested, if you insert the wrong passcode for 1 to 5 times, there will only be red notifications saying the passcode is wrong, and you needn’t wait to give it another try.

For the 6th time you insert a wrong passcode, it will report, “iPhone is disabled, try again in 1 minute”. And the phone will be locked, and you won’t be able to insert passcode again until 1 minute later.

For the 7th time, the iPhone will show, “iPhone is disabled, try again in 5 minutes”.

For the 8th time, the iPhone will be locked for 15 minutes, and for the 9th time, it will be locked for 60 minutes to insert passcode again.

If you insert the wrong passcode for 10th time, the iPhone will be disabled and you will have to connect it to iTunes to unlock.

Apparently if you jailbreak the iPhone the delays aren’t set correctly (or at least that was the case 10 years ago)?

On top of that, the user couldn’t just wipe the phone because they didn’t want to lose a video that wasn't backed up anywhere else.

independantiste@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 1y

I get rate limiting the amount of passwors that can be tried (especially when they have a pre-defined limit of 4 or 6 numbers), but going over hours or days between attempts is a bit extreme

sugartits@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm sorry, what? I guess I'll just add this to my list of reasons I'm glad I use Android

My old Sony android phone did a factory reset in my pocket because I supposedly got the unlock code wrong a few times.

I never touched the damned thing and the first I knew about it was because my pocket felt warm.

shasta@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Hm. I'll make sure not to enable that setting

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Samsung?

ruud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ooh an iPhone that's been locked for 50 years, I wonder what iPhones looked like in 1974!

I haven't read this. But I know you can unlock your iPhone using your icloud account.

(Still, happy I switched to android this year)

MenacingPerson@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Ooh an iPhone that's been locked for 50 years, I wonder what iPhones looked like in 1974!

Maybe instead of mocking them, you should try to understand what was said. They said the iphone was locked for another 50 years (future), not that this marks the 50th anniversary of the iphone being locked.

mbirth@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 1y (2 replies)

“I have no idea who locked it in 2015,” she said. At that time, the iPhone displayed a message saying it would unlock in 80,000 hours.

This usually happens when you hand your phone to your toddler.

Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

But don't you have to first wait minutes, then hours, then days etc. before you finally get to 10 years? That's some dedixated toddler

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 1y

Have you ever met a toddler? Try doing peekaboo 4 times with a 3-year-old and then tell them you're bored. Unless you're willing to deal with screams for 16 hours, you're only about 996 peekaboos away from a satisfied toddler.

Locking an iphone for only 10 years sounds like a toddler with a short attention span.

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y (7 replies)

I had no idea waiting could be ‘tenacious’.

lechatron@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Sounds like all she did was toss it in a drawer for 10 years, so very tenacious of her.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Yeah, I was expecting it to be something like "0000, no. 0001, no. 0002, no... Holy crap, I got it!"

rikudou@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I did this with a suitcase lock once, luckily only 3 digits. The code was 587. I remembered the code at around 540.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, four digits probably wouldn't take 10 years. Eight digits, I could see depending on how fast you're allowed to try again. I was just being lazy about typing.

Aethr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

It would if the lockout time got longer with every failed attempt

lechatron@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y

Exactly what I thought too.

borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

For real. It’s an iPhone 4s, if the wait was really that bad the person could have just gotten a grey market cellebrite ufed and been done with this whole thing. They sell for like $300-$400 on eBay ffs.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

Tenacious P