BEIJING- A two-year-old boy in Shanghai locked his mother’s iPhone for theequivalent of 47 years after playing with it and repeatedly entering thewrong passcode, according to a Chinese media report.
The mother, identified by her family name as Lu, returned home and foundthat the phone had been disabled for 25 million minutes by pressing keysrepeatedly when the handset requested the passcode be inputted.
Each time the wrong keys were pressed, the phone was disabled for a periodof time, reported the South China Morning Post citing news website KankaNews.
A technician at an Apple store in Shanghai reportedly told Lu to eitherwait for years to try to put her passcode again or wipe the contents of thehandset clean and then reinstall files.
“In this woman’s case, the only way out (without waiting) is to erase allthe phone data and do a factory reset,” technician Wei Chunlong was quotedas saying.
Chunlong also said that there had been cases of phones getting locked foran equivalent of over 80 years by the same method.
The incident happened in January after the phone was given to the child towatch educational videos online, Lu said.