Apple's Already Being Sued Over the 'Error 53' Issue

Apple's Already Being Sued Over the 'Error 53' Issue

Find any problem with an Apple device, and sure as carrion crows will rip the still-beating heart from a carcass, class action lawyers will assemble. So it goes with Error 53 , the latest (non) issue to befall Cupertino. A quick refresher: some users had been replacing the home buttons on their iPhones, which on a more modern handset, means replacing the fingerprint sensor. From iOS 9 onwards, Apple's software interprets any unauthorized (read: not performed by an Apple Store) change to the security hardware as an attempted hack, and bricks the phone, giving an "Error 53". Earlier today the Guardian reported on mounting "fury" over a mysterious "Error 53" appearing on… Read more Read more It's mostly a non-issue, affecting only users who took their iPhones to dodgy third-party repair services for a broken screen—those technicians would replace the screen and the TouchID sensor entirely, causing the phone to give the error.

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