If you enter your iPhone password incorrectly five times, you have to wait 45 years before trying again?

How many "Apple fans" have not experienced the mistake of entering the wrong password? But yesterday, a piece of news made Apple fans unable to remain calm: if you enter the wrong password on your iPhone 5 times in a row, the screen will show that you can only enter it again after 45 years!

Is this true? The reporter confirmed that it is possible for the "45 years" display to appear, but it does not mean that your Apple will become a brick, nor do you have to wait 45 years before you can use it.

Yesterday, a reporter from Qianjiang Evening News also conducted an experiment of "inputting the wrong boot password". As long as you still remember the boot password, you don't have to worry about your iPhone becoming a brick. Otherwise, you can only flash the phone to revive it.

Try again 45 years after 5 wrong entries? Jailbroken, maybe

Yesterday, a piece of news said that the owner of an Apple 4S phone entered the wrong password five times in a row. After that, the phone was locked and the interface showed a message "iPhone is disabled, please try again in 23614974 minutes".

23614974 minutes is roughly 45 years. After seeking help from many sources without success, the owner had no choice but to send the phone to a mobile phone repair shop. After flashing the phone, it finally returned to normal, but the photos and messages in it were all deleted.

Yesterday, a reporter from Qianjiang Evening News reported the experience of "typing the wrong number 5 times and trying again after 45 years" to Ms. Zhang, an official Apple technician. She said with certainty that the phone had been jailbroken. "Under normal circumstances, the Apple system would not have such a display. The only possibility is that the phone's system has been tampered with, the most common being jailbreaking, which caused the system to become chaotic and the display to become chaotic."

This confusion is not only reflected in the number "23614974 minutes", but also in the number of wrong inputs. "Every Apple product has 10 chances of inputting wrong inputs when setting up, but this 4S only had 5 wrong inputs."

If you make mistakes during the first 5 attempts, you can try again; starting from the 6th time, the waiting time will get longer and longer.

To further verify the information, a reporter from Qianjiang Evening News went to an Apple store and, with the help of the staff, experimented with "entering the wrong power-on password" on both the iPhone and iPad.

If you enter the password incorrectly for the 1st to 5th time in a row, the screen will be displayed in red and prompt that the password is incorrect. You can continue to re-enter the password without any waiting time.

If you enter the wrong password for the sixth time in a row, it will display "iPhone is disabled, please enter again after 1 minute". In the next minute, the phone is locked, and even if you know the correct password now, you can't find the password box.

If you enter the wrong password for the 7th time in a row, the message "iPhone is disabled. Please enter again after 5 minutes" will appear, and you will be unable to operate within 5 minutes.

If you enter the wrong password for the 8th time in a row, you will be unable to operate for 15 minutes; if you enter the wrong password for the 9th time in a row, you will be unable to operate for 60 minutes;

If you enter the wrong password for the 10th time in a row, the message "iPhone is disabled, connect to iTunes" will appear. In this case, no matter how long you wait, there is no chance that the password box will appear again.

It is worth noting that the 10 wrong passwords must be entered consecutively without a long interval or a correct password, otherwise the 10 times will be recalculated. In order for an Apple phone to show the result of "10 consecutive wrong passwords", at least 141 minutes must pass because of the waiting time in between.

The Qianbao experiment also found that during the "iPhone is disabled" waiting time, although no operations can be performed, if there is an incoming call, the locked iPhone can still answer the call.

Remember the password and don't be afraid of pranks, otherwise, you can only choose to flash the phone

But if you really encounter a prank, does it mean that the iPhone will die? No. When the Apple message "iPhone is disabled, connect to iTunes" appears, you only need to connect to an authorized computer to reappear the password input box. You can enter the correct password to open the iPhone and resume use.

Ma Daha asked again, if I really forgot the power-on password, is there any way to retrieve it? Isn't there synchronization? The official Apple technicians and the staff of the exclusive store all gave the same answer: No, you can only flash the phone.

"The purpose of setting 10 chances is to serve as an anti-theft measure. Apple's synchronization does not have a power-on password, which is only known by the owner." Ms. Zhang explained.

Flashing a phone generally requires sending it to an authorized store for staff to perform. The price of a flashing operation is less than 200 yuan. It should be noted that flashing a phone means restoring the factory settings, and the original storage memory in the phone will be erased. "If you often back up your phone on a computer, you can still restore some content after flashing it, but if not, then it will become a new phone."

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.