A three-year-old girl locked her mum's iPhone for nearly 25 million minutes - or nearly 48 years - after she entered the wrong passcode too many times, according to local media.<br /><br />In the video, captured in Fuzhou City in southeastern China's Fujian Province on March 6, the message: "iPhone is disabled. Please try again after 24,962,534 minutes" is shown on the device's screen, owned by a Mrs. Ye.<br /><br />After Ye got her phone back from her daughter, she found that it was disabled and could only be unlocked after around 48 years, local reports said.<br /><br />The iPhone security settings lock the phone after a certain amount of failed attempts to get the right password.<br /><br />According to local media, a member of staff at a mobile phone store said that the lock feature was aimed at protecting users' privacy and the safety of the device. <br /><br />Local reports said that Mrs. Ye could refresh the phone's system or reset it in order to start using it again but that she would lose all her data.
