3-Year-Old Locks Dad’s iPad for 25 Million Minutes, or 48.5 Years

3-Year-Old Locks Dad’s iPad for 25 Million Minutes, or 48.5 Years
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A father in Washington was locked out of his iPad for near half a century after his toddler tried accessing his device with the wrong passcode.

“Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it’s our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock,” New Yorker magazine writer Evan Osnos wrote on April 6.