Remember the bug that turned your iPhone into a brick if you tried setting your handset’s date back to May 1970 or earlier? After taking about a week to acknowledge the bug, Apple finally has a fix coming down the pike.
The bug would essentially force a reboot if you used the Settings app to change your device’s date to any time between January 1, 1970 to May that year, after which any 64-bit iPhone would brick.
Apple last week noted the bug and said that a fix was on the way, but at the time the way to get your iPhone working again was to go to an Apple Store for a replacement handset.
