Unlock Iphone With Calculator Tiktok

May 10, 2021 6:34 AM EDT

Can you unlock any iPhone by using this viral TikTok tutorial?

Heads up for iPhone owners, it might be easy to unlock your smartphone without a password!

Internet - iPhone users beware, alleged hacked would make it a little too easy to unlock your smartphone!

Step by step, TikToker imnotjs3 explains how to unlock your phone without a password. © www.tiktok.com/@imnotjs3?

If this is real, then Apple needs to take some measures to fix it. And it should even only take a few seconds, as TikTok user imnotjs3 demonstrates in his clip.

First, he has a friend swipe down on the screen with his finger, covering his camera so as not to activate facial recognition. Then the control panel opens.

Next, the TikToker tells him to disable the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, as well as mobile data, and then turn on flight mode.

In the next step, he has his friend click on the calculator app at the bottom right and turn the iPhone to landscape mode. Typing period followed by "In" leads to an error message in the calculator's input field. As soon as the young man taps the RAD key and swipes up, the phone unlocks!

The techie TikToker and his friend then shriek in celebration at the successful hack.

TikTok users are at odds over iPhone hoax

For some users the trick works, others claim it's fake. © 123RF/anyaberkut

But is unlocking an iPhone really that simple?

More than 32 million TikTok users have already watched the clip, and some of them confirmed in the comments that imnotjs3's alleged iPhone hack works.

"It actually worked for me," one user writes. Another says, "So this really worked on my phone. Now I'm a little worried that I'm not as safe as I thought from someone searching my smartphone."

Others note that the TikToker's friend didn't properly cover the facial recognition and probably unlocked his phone using it anyway because the calculator shouldn't rotate on an unlocked iPhone.

If this is just faking it for the clout, it wouldn't be the first time. A similar hack that went viral in December was debunked by viewers pointing out that the facial recognition software was actually doing the work.

Cover photo: 123RF/anyaberkut