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Apple update turns Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

“A 21-yr-old university student in the US is in data limbo after #Apple removed a character from its #Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his #iPhone passcode.”

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/12/ios_passcode_bug/

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

: Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode

The Register

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Edwin G.

1d ago

@AnnaAnthro Apple should be able to unlock the device they forcibly locked.

And prevent future updates that break secure passwords like this. 😡

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Heliomass

@EdwinG @AnnaAnthro Epic. I once got caught out setting a Mac password with accented characters. Turns out the keyboard layout was different at boot, so it took a lot of trial and error to work out which was the right key.