A 3-year-old boy repeatedly entered the wrong password, locked up his dad's iPad until 2067

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A 3-year-old boy repeatedly entered the wrong password, locked up his dad's iPad until 2067
April 9, 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/09/tech/locked-ipad-boy-trnd/index.html

Let's just call this reason No. 580 not to leave your kids alone with technology: They might lock you out of it.
That's what happened over the weekend to Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He put out a tweet -- or a cry for help -- letting the world know of the little situation his toddler put him in.
"Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it's our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?" Osnos tweeted. A photo of the iPad's screen noted the device was disabled. It also had this mind-blowing message: "Try again in 25,536,442 minutes."

The iPad lockout is a security feature of Apple devices that kicks in whenever someone repeatedly types the wrong password. The more times an incorrect password is entered, the longer the lock-out time grows.
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Ready for a restore
So what does Apple suggest? Apple says you would need to perform a restore to use the device again (but you would lose the data on the device if you've never backed it up).

"It's down a few hundred minutes from yesterday, but it looks like we've still got 25 million minutes to go," he told the newspaper.
Later on Monday Osnos tweeted that he'd managed to get the iPad into DFU (Device Firmware Update) mode and is in the process of restoring the tablet.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/na...0190408-isuacppxwzcythrt6kbiqzg76e-story.html
Canada’s CTV News asked a Toronto-based computer fixer how to solve Osnos’ problem.

According to Tom Wolanczyk of Fixt Wireless Repair, this sort of lock-out issue with Apple products happens from time to time. He said that the computer giant’s security systems ask users trying to log in with the wrong password to try again in a given amount of time that increases exponentially with each failed attempt. He recommends going through Apple’s website to completely reset the unit, which could erase data stored in the unit.
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