An issue that has been plaguing a portion of the iPhone users for nearly 2 weeks now has finally come to an end, it would seem, as this is the conclusion of the iPhone 6 error 53. It would appear that after major consumer complaints and even threats of lawsuits that could have ended costing Apple hundreds of millions, the company came up with a fix that was pushed through a bug fix patch just today.
The infamous Error 53 is the reason thousands of users were left without a phone over the last two weeks after they attempted updating their systems to the latest iOS 9.3 patch. The reason? The firmware update that came with it would detect if any third-party service center repairs had been done to the phone, and brick it if the response was positive.
This left a great number of individuals without a functional phone, with no fix to it and the only prospect being purchasing a new device altogether, with no method of accessing the data of your previous phone unless you had a recent backup of it saved on your computer. Now, two weeks into the problem, user uproar and threats of lawsuits, Apple has come forward with a way to fix the devices that ended up being bricked by error 53.
The fix comes packed in the update known as iOS 9.2.1 and it will stop phones from being affected. This came along with an official apology from Apple and urged the ones affected to get in touch with Apple Support. It also came along a clear explanation of what made error 53 appear all of a sudden and affect so many units.
Apparently, along with the firmware update came a new method of amplifying the levels of security found in the phone. Considering that the Touch ID sensor is the way one can access some of the most private and sensitive features of your iPhone, whenever the system detected that it had been tampered with (and to be more exact, whenever someone went into a third party service center to get a home button or their screen fixed) and instantly shut down to prevent personal data breach.
Now, the ones affected can revive their bricked phones by plugging them in their computers and updating the system via iTunes. However, the patch also prevents the fingerprint reader from working for the time being, seeing that Apple says the error 53 incident was a factory test that accidentally was let slip past the confines of the company.
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Deborah Campbell
