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  • [Vanity] Anyone ever have their iPhone “disabled” for a period of time without explanation?

    07/27/2020 7:40:18 PM PDT · by fwdude · 70 replies
    Self | 07/27/2020 | fwdude
    I just experienced a total phone lock, with the screen simply stating: “iPhone has been disabled. Try again in ___ minutes.” First it was one minute. A second try suggested 5 minutes. I finally got it back. That the....?!!! What’s peculiar is that emergency calls were still activated and allowed, but no other function. This does not seem to be an outage from the carrier, because the phone’s home screen would still work. My next question is whether an old android phone can be made to stand in as a phone in a pinch, using some third party app as...
  • Child locks mother's iPhone for 48 YEARS [tr]

    03/06/2018 9:39:14 PM PST · by sparklite2 · 15 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 6 March 2018 | Joe Pinkstone
    A mother in Shanghai left her son to watch 'educational videos' on her smartphone but returned to find it had been locked for 25 million minutes. Apple's iPhones can be set to lock out anyone trying to use them if a wrong passcode is entered with the lockout period increasing with each failed attempt, but it is not clear how many times the child typed in the wrong numbers.