- Back to Home »
- Replacing your iPhone’s home button could lock you out
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Friday, 5 February 2016
Touch ID is a great way to log in to your iPhone with your fingerprint, but it may also mean that if you replace your home button at an unauthorized store, it might brick your whole phone. According to a story in The Guardian, Apple customers who went to unofficial repair stores for their broken home buttons have been permanently locked out of their phones with “error 53.” There are hundreds of threads relating to the issue, with no way to get access back to the device. iCracked wrote in November that “we now know that error 53 is the result…
This story continues at The Next Web