Playing with the iPad, the 3-year-old boy locked his father's tablet 49 years

After reclaiming the iPad from the hands of her little 3-year-old child, Evan Osnos - a New Yorker journalist received a 'painful' surprise. Not knowing how many times his son had mistakenly pressed the code on the iPad, the message "The iPad has been disabled. Please try again after 25,536,442 minutes". This means that Osnos must wait until . in 2068, or 49 years to try to enter the password again to unlock your iPad.

Today, the parents for children to use the iPhone or iPad to be 'quiet' for a while often happens. However, the situation like Osnos encountered by his son is hard to describe in words.

According to iOS's machine protection mechanism, after some incorrect attempts to enter the unlock code, the iPhone and iPad will automatically disable the device for a period of time. Usually, this period will only last from 1 minute, 5 minutes to half an hour.

The iPad will automatically disable and require users to wait a while before trying to unlock it again if they enter the wrong password.

Osnos then shared about the rare situation I encountered on social networks to ask for help. However, until now, no effective solution has been proposed.

An Apple Store technician said, Osnos has only two choices: one is to wait 49 years, the other is to restore the iPad to its original state, which means losing all the data in the computer. .

Osnos is not the first parent to fall into this dreadful situation. Last year, the iPhone of a Chinese mother was locked up for 48 years because her 2-year-old child clicked too much.

The iPhone is disabled in 25,113,676 minutes.

After the story above, parents probably have to be more careful in letting children play with devices that have password set if they don't want to lose important data stored on them.