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Apple Acknowledges iOS 1970 Date Bug, Says Fix Is on the Way

Apple Acknowledges iOS 1970 Date Bug, Says Fix Is on the Way 6l5o5z

By Manish Singh | Updated: 16 February 2016 10:34 IST

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Apple has acknowledged a bug in its iPod to May 1970 or earlier. The Cupertino-based company assures s that it is working on a fix. 6v2n65

s reported last week that changing the system date on their iPhone, or iPad, or sixth-generation iPod touch to January 1, 1970 was restarting the device and forcing it to onto a never-ending bootloop. Once affected, there is little to nothing a could do to fix the device.

Addressing the issue, Apple wrote on its website that changing the date on your iOS device to May, 1970 or earlier will brick it. The iPhone maker assures that an software update to iOS will resolve the issue.

As we noted earlier, the issue affects every iOS-powered device that has a 64-bit SoC - which means that A7, A8, A8X, A9, and A9X SoC models are impacted. Which in other words mean, the iPod touch sixth-generation are affected.

It isn't clear exactly what is the triggering the bug, but a leading theory (video below) on the Interweb says the glitch revolves around "integer underflow caused by the Unix epoch," in which a forces the time to a near 0 value (because an iPhone allows January 01, 1970 as the first accepted date, it considers it as the starting point), which causes every app or process that requires timestamp verification to fail.

If you've accidentally already bricked your iOS device, the best thing for you to do is to take it to an authorised Apple store.

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