Some users might wonder now why iPhone bricked and what could happen in 2016 to make the popular Apple smartphone a useless device [here is next iPhone 7 design rumors]. It turns out that even simple changes in Settings app can brick your handset. You don’t want the iDevice to go on lockdown, right?
What is brick iPhone? This is the device that is locked down permanently. You cannot unlock it. You cannot use it. You cannot restart and use it because the device will stay bricked after being restarted, connected to iTunes etc. Anyways, you don’t want to brick your gadget by simply changing the date and time on it. So here is an advice: learn about all potentially dangerous dates you should avoid and you won’t get bricked in 2016.
iPhone Brick Reasons
Users who following the online prank and tried to set their iPhone clock to January 1, 1970 are very unhappy with the result: bricked phone after restart. Simple joke bricked their gadget. It is easy to change the date and time on iPhone through Settings – General menu where you can access Date & Time option and disable Set Automatically feature [there are also problems with iPhone 6s battery]. This is the way to select any date and time you wish. Just don’t get back to 1970 even if you want to surprise someone.
The bug seems to affect iOS 9 and iOS 8 smartphones with 64-bit chip. In other words, all users with iPhone 5s, 6 and 6s should not perform any tricks with their date and time until Apple fixes the problem which seems to affect smartphones with A7, A8, A8X, A9 and A9X processors.