If you’ve had your phone worked on by a third party, then you’re not alone. Lots of other people have turned to places other than the Apple Store to get issues fixed, like with the home button where the fingerprint ID is. Apparently, iOS9 doesn’t like third-party repairs, and while the fix itself isn’t a huge issue to normal people, it is to Apple. Users who upgrade to iOS9 are finding themselves the victim of Apple’s Error 53, which completely kills their phones.
The company is so vindictive that they’re willing to brick phones over a simple repair, and it’s not like that can be undone. Once Apple triggers Error 53, the phone is completely dead. All pictures, all contact information, all everything on the phone is immediately trashed and cannot be restored. Essentially, for the unprepared, upgrading your iPhone is a device death sentence if you’ve ever had it worked on by someone not an authorized Apple retailer, and it appears that third parties repairing the phones and those getting phones repaired weren’t ever aware that this might become an issue.
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