Apple brings iOS 9.2.1 update for "Error 53" -Betroffene

Apple has released an update for iOS 9.2.1 released, which in spite of "Error 53" allows a reset of the iPhone. Affected whose iPhone will not boot after changing the Touch ID sensor, your smartphone can now restore via iTunes.

Betroffene des "Error 53" dürften sich über den neuen Fix freuen. (© 2016 picture alliance 

Apple has finally respond to the "Error 53" and provided a fix for affected iPhone owners, reports 9to5Mac. The iOS version is 9.2.1 with although unchanged, the build number instead carries 13D15 but now the name 13D20 - and thus has a fix for the "error 53" back. Apple itself has provided a support document with a recommended procedure online. Consequently, the recovery of an affected iPhones succeeds only directly through iTunes. So if you have the basis of a repair to complain of uncertified source itself a total failure of its iPhones and gets only see the error code, may proceed as follows.

Restoring the iPhone only directly through iTunes

First, it must be ensured that the latest version of iTunes is installed. A restart of the iPhone should be enforced. For standby and Home button for at least 10 seconds should be pressed simultaneously - until the Apple Logo appears on the display. After a restore via iTunes can be performed. How to Reset an Apple device via iTunes, we explain in a separate guide. If the recovery continues to fail, you have to apply for assistance directly to the Apple support.

Apple apologizes to customers for any inconvenience

Cause of the error is an iPhone repair that was carried out with unauthorized components. Because with every update or backup, the system checks, according to Apple, whether the Touch ID sensor is assigned to the phone or not. If the system detects an unknown respectively unexpected Touch ID module fails the security check. Consequently, the affected iPhone could not be started up and used. The fix now published, the US company has responded to this unsatisfactory situation and apologized to its customers for the inconvenience. Before first law firms had previously lodged a class action in view.