The 1970 glitch is a slightly pestering and mostly entertaining software program glitch that bricks any iPhone by setting the date back before May 1970 . Unsurprisingly , Apple ’s rectify that glitch in the next rendering of iOS .
The most recent beta of iOS 9.3 fixes the bug by restrict the organisation fourth dimension — you now ca n’t place it back before December 31st , 2000 , intercept any possibleness of bricking the French telephone . Apple has n’t formally said what caused the trouble , but it’slikely linkedto the Unix time system used in places in iOS , which struggles to handle day of the month before 1970 .
https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-few-good-reasons-to-download-the-new-ios-beta-1753107740
The bugfixed beta is already available to developers and public beta testers . The full software should be rolling out to universal public sometime this spring , and an train guess would point to a launch sometime around Apple ’s March 15 event .
[ Macrumors ]
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