A Toddler Accidentally Locked an iPhone for Nearly Half a Century

Mar 08, 2018, 12:20 PM

It's a modern-day horror story: a 2-year-old child input an incorrect passcode on an iPhone so many times that the device became locked for 47 years, rendering it utterly useless to its formerly digitally-connected owner.

That's the scenario now facing a Shanghai mother identified only as Ms. Lu by Chinese news reports, whose toddler unfortunately took the time allotted to watch "educational videos" on the phone and instead began the process of disabling the device for, basically, forever.