Surely many have heard about the date January 1, 1970 and what will happen if you put it on your iPhone. I propose today to fully understand this issue.

The topic is quite interesting and deserves attention, because without knowing about it, you can very easily turn your iPhone into a real brick.

All aspects of this problem and its solution will be further in the material.

What happens if you set the date to January 1, 1970 on an iPhone?

It all started with the fact that a certain "Reddit" found a rather amusing bug on devices starting with the iPhone 5S, that is, all models that have a 64-bit processor.

For this bug to occur, the following actions were performed on the video:

1. went to Settings - General - Date and Time;
2. disable Automatically so that you can configure it manually;
3. set the date to January 1, 1970 and the time 1:00;
4. we get a brick.

As soon as this problem appeared, it raised a lot of noise and many video bloggers began to test their gadgets. After all, it became interesting about the reason.

The main theory is that iOS is a UNIX-based operating system. If you set this date, then the system time goes to a negative value.

The computing components of a smartphone start to go crazy and then the gadget simply cannot be loaded.

Standard solutions like reboot or recovery via DFU and Recovery mode just don't work.

Solving the problem with the date January 1, 1970 on an iPhone

We all know that in order to reset the settings on your computer, you just need to disconnect the battery on motherboard and then, in the BIOS, the settings, including the time, will be reset.

Therefore, given that the iPhone is a kind of computer, the solution is similar. We need to do a very similar procedure on the phone.

There are two ways to achieve a reset:

• wait until the battery is completely discharged;
• disassemble the phone and manually disconnect the battery from the device.

In the first option, you really have to wait enough for a long time and then you have to be patient. And this option is really normal if you don't want to spend money.

In the second case, you just need to do this operation yourself, but only if you have done this before and have enough experience, otherwise you can harm the device.

But the most ideal option is to just go to any service center and say what your problem is. In a matter of minutes, the problem will be fixed and your iPhone will come to life again.

conclusions

Now you know what exactly will happen if you put on any iPhone, starting with 5S, the date January 1, 1970. At one time, all this made a lot of noise.

It's still not clear to the end for today, corrected this problem or not. There are articles on the net about the fix, but there is no official confirmation from Apple.

Therefore, for now it is better to avoid cruel jokes of your friends and not let them do it. Although now you know if this happens, what needs to be done in this case.

The iPhone, like everyone else sophisticated technology, there are many hidden features, many of which are very useful. Here is a selection of life hacks.

1. Unlock your phone with your nose

In winter, using a smartphone is not very convenient. Even if you have gloves that transmit a touch to the screen, in order to turn on the phone, you either need to enter the password each time or take off your gloves. But there is also another way. In the settings of the TouchID system, select "add a fingerprint", and put your nose instead of your finger. In the cold, the nose sticks out anyway, so it's easier to bring the phone to your nose than take off your gloves.

2. Flip the phone over so it lags behind you

When you're at work, the constantly flashing iPhone screen can be very distracting. Here is a retweet, there is news, here the channel has been updated. Even if notifications come without sound or vibration, your phone is constantly blinking somewhere in the field of view. If you turn it over, the phone vibrates only for the most important alerts. And if you have iOS 9 (or higher) installed, the proximity sensor will also inform the phone that the screen does not need to be turned on again. And so you can save battery power surprisingly noticeably.

3. Fall asleep faster in the evening

Starting with iOS 9.3, iPhones iPhone 5S and newer, the Night Shift feature is available. This is a mode that changes the color of the screen depending on the time of day. The darker it is outside, the less cold colors and the more warm. If you sit with your phone in the evening on social networks, the bright light of the screen prevents you from falling asleep - it interferes with the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone. When Night Shift is on, this effect is reduced. You can enable the mode in the screen settings, and when the sun goes down, the screen will gradually change color.

4. Play music or podcasts quickly

When you connect headphones to the phone or insert the USB cable that is connected to the car, the icon of the last application that you have actively used with the headphones appears on the lock screen in the lower left corner - music, podcasts, YouTube. Very convenient for quick launch... The same will happen if you double-click the "home" button - the icon will be at the bottom, under the carousel of open applications.

5. Quickly close applications

If you like to close apps so they don't drain your battery, we will disappoint you. This action is quite meaningless, alas. When the application is running in the background, it almost does not use up the charge. But then you can free up some RAM. Well, someone is just calmer when everything is closed. In any case, it can be done more efficiently. If you swipe the screen with not one finger, but three, then closing applications can be three times faster, since the iPhone screen is able to track more than one touch at a time.

6. Take photos discreetly

There are two ways to secretly take a photo. First, press any volume button on your phone, it works like a shutter. But all the same, if you turn the phone in your hands and press a button, someone will notice. If you have headphones with volume buttons (it is important that they work, some headphones have buttons, but they do not change the volume on an iPhone), you can take a photo and pretend that you are adjusting the headphones. We hope you will not use this knowledge for evil.

7. Calculate sines and cosines

If you open the calculator and turn the iPhone into landscape mode, that is, on its side, a regular calculator turns into a logarithmic one, and more complex calculations can be performed.

8. Check if the painting hangs straight.

Every iPhone has a compass since 3GS. But besides this, modern smartphones are crammed with other sensors. Including, there is an accelerometer and a gyroscope. These sensors allow you to use your iPhone as a level and check the evenness of any surface. Open the Compass app, swipe left, and place your phone on whatever you are testing for evenness.

9. Get new phone instead of the killed

There are many ways to break an iPhone. But if you give the iPhone for the first repair that comes along, the warranty flies. And the main thing that you deprive yourself of when you make repairs with an uncertified specialist is the ability to replace your phone. If you have broken the phone yourself, drowned it or burned it, you can request a paid replacement from a certified repair center. To do this, the phone must be officially purchased, less than two years have passed since the purchase, and the phone must not be opened with a screwdriver. Most likely it will come out more expensive than repairs, but you will have a completely new device.

10. Turn off your phone, even if your button is broken

On iPhones, the on-off button sometimes breaks. This was especially true for the 4 and 4S models. Almost all iPhones of that generation no longer have these buttons. But there is a trick. In the settings there is an Assistive Touch mode - for people with disabilities. This button appears on the screen and can be used to configure almost all phone functions with one hand. Including, there is a button "lock the screen". This can save you from thousands of messages and calls being dialed with your backside due to the button not working.

11. Recover accidentally deleted text

If you misspelled, inserted text into the wrong document, erased what you were going to copy, the iPhone has a way to undo recent action with text. To do this, the phone must be shaken. A window will appear asking if you want to undo this action or not. This feature is rarely needed, but when it is needed, it is needed very badly. Just remember, you made a mistake with the text - shake your phone.

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February 2016 was a time of unprecedented demand for Apple service center services. People en masse took their favorite "apple phones" to specialists because of one simple bug discovered by users. The fateful date of January 1, 1970, set on the iPhone, after turning off the phone turned it into a useless piece of plastic (or “brick” in common people).

The discovery made by someone quickly spread throughout the Internet in the form of a joke. It was massively published by various communities in social networks... Moreover, often under the pretext that the setting of this magical date opens hidden functions phone. As a result, thousands and thousands of users put their gadgets out of order with their own hands.

How did it all start?

About the fact that after the installation on January 1, 1970, the iPhone "goes crazy", Reddit users began to talk more. The exact algorithm that brought the phone to an inoperative state looks like this:

1. You need to go to the phone settings.
2. In the "General" tab, select the item for setting the date and time.
3. Move the slider to disable automatic time change.
4. Manually set the "magic" date to January 1, 1970. The time needs to be changed to 1:00.
5. After that, the owner reboots the phone and, voila, the phone stops working. It is displayed on the screen only and no manipulations help to solve the problem.

Why did this date and time become the "root of evil"? The point is that the iOS system is based on UNIX. And in it, the countdown begins exactly from the designated date. In this regard, a theory of the origin of the problem was derived. When the user sets 01.01.70, the time value from the reference point becomes negative. Why negative and not zero? Simply because the iOS system will automatically adjust the displayed time to match the time zone. The minus value "confuses" the hardware. As a result, the phone breaks down.

This problem could remain a discovery of a narrow circle of people, which in the future would be "fixed" by the developers. If not for the numerous jokers who began to spread evil jokes on the Internet. All of them were aimed at getting more users to set themselves the dangerous date of January 1, 1970. This led to a massive panic among iPhone users.

What is the “terrible power” of January 1, 1970?

After users step by step followed the instructions for setting the specified date and time, the phone had to be rebooted. After that, the cherished bull's-eye popped up on the screen and ... that's it. Then the phone no longer loaded and gave the impression of a completely out of order thing.

It should be noted that not everyone immediately began to panic and rushed to the specialists. Those who are familiar with the technique, of course, tried to solve the situation on their own. But the reboot used in such cases (by holding Home and Power) did not give any result. As well as recovery with using iTunes... In fact, there are working methods, and you will learn about them later.

It is curious that this "feature" worked only on new phones in which the A7 processor and subsequent versions are installed. While 32-bit devices remained in their usual state after manipulations. In addition, even some users of gadgets with modern processors did not suffer from this problem either. For which the reason was expressed in the Internet communities about the impact of the time zone in which the person is located. However, when testing this version in practice, there were several situations that refute the theory.

Gradually, the number of those who got into this trouble accidentally began to dwindle, and experts have developed ways that helped to return everything "to square one."

How to fix iPhone problem?

Users searched for options on their own. Among the solutions, one was proposed, which in the end turned out to be the only correct one and working. If the battery is disconnected or the iPhone is completely discharged, the date January 1, 1970 will be reset.

And if not everyone could solve the problem by completely discharging, then removing the battery helped 100%. It is important to note that performing the procedure on their own void users of the right to free warranty service. By the way, Apple's management was silent about the problem for a long time. And to repair or change devices for free in service centers refused.

How did Apple react to the problem?

The problem of January 1, 1970 was ignored by the company for some time, despite the crowds of users pouring into service centers.

But already on February 15, an appeal appeared on the official website, which informed people about the danger of changing the date. Also, the management recommended that everyone who managed to check the bug on their device contact the support service.

Subsequently, the released iOS 9.3 corrected the mistake. After the update, users could change the dates as much as they wanted, including this unfortunate one. In any case, even after rebooting, the device continued to operate normally.

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Smartphones designed by Apple, have long taken a strong position in the market mobile phones... However, operating system Apple phones still have unrevealed opportunities that you did not even know about.

website shares with you awesome tricks you can do with your iPhone.

Timer for playing music

Now, before going to bed, you can enjoy your favorite tunes without worrying about how to stay awake and leave the music playing all night. Just start a timer at the time you need, which is located on the "Clock" tab. In the "When finished" section, instead of the preset ringtone, select the "Stop" item and fall asleep. Your phone will do the rest of the work for you. A real find for audiobook lovers!

Create a unique vibration

Instead of the standard vibration pattern for text messages you can easily create your own template.

• Go to phone settings, then - "Sounds"> "Ringtones"> "Vibration". Select the section labeled "Create Vibration".
• Start recording and tap the screen in time with the vibration you want. Then stop recording and save your template. It will be stored in the “Vibration” subsection (ringtones menu), in the “Custom” list.

In addition, you can create a personalized vibration for each contact in your phone book.

Cleaning the device's RAM

To make your iPhone run faster, try clearing your device's RAM. This can be done with a few simple steps:

• Press and hold the power off button of your device until the shutdown slider appears.
• Without making the usual swipe on the shutdown slider, press and hold the "Home" button.
• After a few seconds, you will see a slight screen flickering and then you will be returned to the desktop again. To this moment RAM The iPhone or iPad is cleared and the device runs faster.

Message sent time

You can easily find out the exact time of sending a message with a few simple steps:

• Go to the Messages Application.
• Now open the conversation that contains the message you are interested in.
• Swipe from the right edge of the screen to the left.
• The date and time it was sent or received will appear next to each message.

Symbol counter for SMS

To avoid manually counting the characters used in a message, turn on the standard counter function on your iPhone:

• Open the Settings app, find the Messages section.
• In the "Messages" section opposite the "Number of characters" item, activate the slider.

Done! As soon as you start typing the text of your message, you will almost immediately notice a character counter on the side, which shows how many characters you have already entered.

Shooting video with the screen off

If you want others not to notice how you are taking photos or videos, do the following:

• On the locked screen, press the "Camera" button and lift the "curtain" that appears halfway.
• Continuing to hold the "curtain" in a half-open state, if necessary, switch to the video recording mode and press the record button.
• Double-click the Home button three times.
• Hold the "shutter" until the screen goes off completely and remember that the recording is already in progress!
• If you want to interrupt video recording, please activate your device in the usual way and stop recording in the menu.

Rewind audio and video

You can change the rewind speed by moving the slider. So, the yellow area is used for fast rewinding, the red one rewinds twice as slow, and the green one takes it even longer.

Calling an extension number

If you want to call an extension from your iPhone, dial the main number and then hold down the star for a few seconds. A comma will appear after the main number on the screen, enter the extension number and press "Call".

Changing the direction of the panorama

Easily change the direction of panorama shooting on iPhone by simply clicking the arrow on your phone screen.

Deleting digits in the calculator

If you notice an error in the dialed number, then delete any extreme digit by swiping your finger to the left or right in the input field.

Fast call for an ambulance

If you fill in your "medical card" in the phone in advance, any user will be able to provide doctors with information that is important to save your life in an emergency. We recommend that you indicate there at least a blood type and information about which medications you may be allergic to.

Recover closed pages in Safari

To see the most recently opened tabs in the Safari browser, simply click on the "+" sign at the bottom of the screen.

Offline maps

If you have previously downloaded the required map, then by typing "OK maps" in the search, you will be able to use the viewed maps in offline mode.

Hidden application "Field Test"

Service codes are available on the iPhone, with the help of which you can get various information about the gadget, mobile operator and networks cellular communication... A simple call to the number * 3001 # 12345 # * you can call a hidden menu with information about the SIM card, network cellular operator, signal level, etc.

Increasing Wi-Fi speed