Before the article begins, I would like to ask you a question, what would you do if your phone was locked for ten years because of various unfortunate circumstances, and it seems that it has not become bricked, but it seems to have become bricked?
Recently, a netizen with the screen name @尹nan娜 really unlocked the phone that has been locked for ten years. She shared this experience on Douyin, which attracted 20 million netizens.
According to the blogger, her phone was locked in 2015, and because she changed her phone, her old phone was repeatedly entered with the wrong password by her family, and it was shown at the time that it would take more than 80,000 hours to untie, because she was in a hurry to go to school, so the old phone was put on hold at home.
It wasn't until recently that she remembered it. In order to untie this old phone, she also specially bought a 30 pin port of the iPhone 4s on the Internet, unlocked the screen, and a familiar smell came to her face.
Those familiar and unfamiliar app icons have brought countless netizens back to the mobile Internet ten years ago.
Take the system interface as an example, the UI is still skeuomorphic style, and the iOS design style has gone from skeuomorphic to flat in 2013 with iOS 7, which means that the iPhone 4s system in the hands of bloggers is at least iOS 6 or earlier.
How many people remember the photos, music, and Safari icons of that time, which are very different from today's apps, weicoPro, Xiami Music, and Guevara Movies, which have disappeared from the internet?
For example, at that time, the App folder expansion animation was a drop-down style, instead of the current pop-up expansion. Didi is still a yellow logo, if you look closely, it is called "Didi", Renren is still there, and Alipay also has the word "wallet".
The most surprising thing for the old fox was Meituan, the early Meituan icon was blue, instead of the current iconic yellow, for a while, it was impossible to tell who imitated whom Meituan and Ele.me.
And the reason why the blogger didn't brush the phone was that he was reluctant to use the data in his mobile phone, which contained a video of her old cat, and now the cat has passed away, which makes people feel a lot of emotion.
Another reason Lao Hu mentioned earlier, this is the blogger's old mobile phone, and on the premise of having a new machine, this iPhone 4s has room to remain for ten years.
Untying the mobile phone that has not been used for ten years is like opening a time capsule that has been sealed for ten years, and the information from ten years ago is transmitted to the ten years later to browse, which has resonated with many netizens, who have posted their iPhones from ten years ago.
Different netizens care about old mobile phones differently, some netizens look at the pictures and videos in the mobile phone album and fall into memories, but it is not easy to export the photos and videos in the iPhone.
Some bloggers like the crisp sound when the screen is unlocked or the screen is turned off, until this video is swiped, the old fox's mood immediately changes from sentimental to joyful, and he is really caught off guard.
Simply calculate for everyone, 25255998 minutes, about 420,000 hours, 17,538 days, 48 years, if you want to turn on this phone, you really need to wait for some time.
If the iPhone takes a long time to unlock, it is usually the result of entering the passcode multiple times in a row, and if you enter it 4 times in a row (personal test), it will become 1 minute and then try again, and if you make another mistake, it will become 5 minutes.
As the number of consecutive inputs increases, the time to retry later will also increase, as for the years or even decades to unlock the screen is a few mistakes, Apple's official website does not explain, and Lao Hu can't test it with his own phone.
On Apple's official website, there is a solution for "iPhone is not available", if the system version of the device is higher than iOS 15, you can use the logged in Apple ID, in the case of the Internet, tap "Forgot Password" at the bottom of the screen, and then enter the password of the Apple ID as required, you can "erase" or "reset" the device.
And if your phone's system is higher than iOS 17 and your phone is unavailable within 72 hours of changing the password, you can also use the old phone password to unlock your phone.
Select Forgot password again and tap Enter the previous password to unlock your phone.
If you don't change your password, erase your phone, or restore your device, your phone will be gone.
And if you keep the phone for a few years or even decades and unlock it, you will have to buy a new one. Ten years later, even if the old phone is unlocked, it becomes a collector's item, which is equivalent to saving data at the price of one phone.
There will be a lot of changes in the past ten years, and it is not easy to keep your phone for a long time.
It may even be because with the passage of time, I found that the things I once cherished were actually dispensable, and I forgot that I would have to unlock my phone after ten years, and even forgot the unlock password.
Erase the device and wait for years, what will everyone choose?
Some bloggers launched a poll on Weibo, and only about 25% of netizens chose to wait for it for ten years, and most netizens chose to flash and reset their phones, or even directly not.
I believe that most mobile phone users will choose the former with the same voting results, otherwise the group of netizens who posted the long-term lock screen of their mobile phones on the Internet more than ten years ago have no news of unlocking their mobile phones now?
Finally, it is recommended that everyone in front of the screen develop the habit of backing up data frequently, which may not be a choice question.
Resources:
Douyin, Weibo, Apple's official website
Edit: Hungry Sheep