3-year-old locks dad's iPad for 49 years

A writer for "The New Yorker" was accidentally locked out of his iPad for 49 years after his 3-year-old son repeatedly keyed in the wrong password.

He posted a screen shot of a message stating to wait nearly 26 million minutes before trying again.
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According to Apple, consecutive wrong entries erase the device's content. The only way to retrieve the data is to restore a backup version of the device.