New Delhi: Warning- Do not set your iPhone clock to January 1, 1970. A new iPhone bug has arisen that encourages users to seek out an iOS 'easter egg' that puts a retro Apple logo theme on the display.
The catch here is that Apple didn't exist until 1976 and if one sets the phone to the date it will essentially brick the device and getting the device back is no easy task.
A report on Wired notes that the misleading image asking users to change their iPhones' date appeared on 4Chan and once rendered useless, even iTunes can't restore important data, leaving one with no choice but to buy a new device.
The bug, however, appears to affect 64-bit iOS devices which means iPhone 5s, iPad Air, and iPad Mini 2 and newer. It is related to a Unix glitch as the date 1/1/1970 has an internal value of zero on a Unix system which leads to a software freakout.
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