Your page To repair an iPhone can often be an expensive affair; especially from official sources. Therefore, it has blossomed into many third-party players that can replace a broken screen, faulty buttons and the like for a lower cost.
Several international media, including The Guardian, now reports that Apple has built a kind of self destruct feature in the latest version of iOS ; Version 9, which was released in the fall.
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Prevents unauthorized tampering
the fault should be related to the Touch ID; fingerprint sensor on the models 5s, 6 / plus and 6s / plus.
If this sensor is disconnected from the phone, the phone will perform a routine the next time it starts up to see if it is still the same sensor that is connected.
Is not it, your phone will lock up with error 53, which in practice makes the phone completely useless.
We’ve also seen several places that this is not necessarily only deals with Touch ID sensor, but also other components in iOS devices.
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– Security mechanism
RECOGNIZES finger: Touch ID is Apple’s technology to unlock the phone, make payments and similar using fingerprint.
In the same article quoted an Apple spokesperson explains why the error occurs (our translation):
– We protect fingerprint data via a safety sinking low, which is paired with each unique Touch ID sensor. When the phone repaired by an authorized agent or an Apple store for things that have to touch ID sensor to do, this pairing validated anew. This check ensures that the phone and the software related to touch ID remains secure. Without this unique pairing, one could have replaced the sensor with a malicious sensor and thus gained access to sikkerhetsenklaven. When iOS discovers that this pairing should fail, the Touch ID functions, including Apple Pay, disabled so that the device remains secure.
When the iPhone is being repaired by an unauthorized third party, improper display or other components in contact with the Touch ID sensor causing this pairing can not be validated. (…) If a customer encounters on feimelding 53, we recommend to contact Apple support.
However, according to users who have received error 53 it’s not just Touch ID functionality disappears. The phone is in practice completely useless.
– The worst thing that can happen
Technology Journalist at the Daily Dot, Mike Wehner, describes error 53 that the worst thing that can happen to your iPhone.
His experience having been in contact with Apple is namely that the only solution to the problem is to replace the phone, and that all data stored on it is lost, unless you have a backup either via iCloud or iTunes.
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Thousands could be affected
According to Kyle Wiens from the site iFixit, which specializes to provide recipes on how to fix things and seaweed, the “Error 53″ webpages their over 180,000 hits.
It suggests that quite a few have been affected by this error globally.
What many find particularly frustrating is that this seems to happen after updating to iOS 9 . It might be that you have fared fine after repairs through iOS 7 and iOS 8, before upgrading to iOS 9 suddenly gives an error message 53 and the phone practically unusable.
Wehner in turn update his article in the wake of recent days, and claims that his phone has never been taken apart or damaged, despite the fact that his phone got the serious error message.
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