Our worst nightmare: toddler locks mum's iPhone for 47 years

We don't know whether to laugh or be horrified. 

A tech-savvy toddler has locked his mother out of her iPhone for 47 years after repeatedly entering the wrong passcode. 

From China, the mother identified by her surname Lu, says she gave the phone to her 2-year-old to watch educational videos. 

"iPhone is disabled, try again in 25,114,984 minutes," the phone notification read, according to local media.

That's a hell of a long time.  

Lu took her phone to the local Apple store. Unfortunately, they told her she only has two options- wait it out or factory reset, wiping all the photos and memory off the phone. 

Lu didn't wat to lose precious data so she decided to wait it out- two months later the phone is still refusing to unlock. 

Despite instances of iPhone users being locked out of phones for decades at a time, it is relatively rare- which is why Apple has no contingency plan for then this happens. 

Surprisingly, Lu is taking the entire thing well. Instead of being angry with her son, she's using it as a reason to embarrass her son in years to come. 

 "I couldn't really wait for 47 years [to] tell my grandchild, 'it was your father's mistake,'" she told a Chinese news outlet.

Apple guidelines state that the phones will be disabled for a few minutes after entering the password wrong six times. However, we all know how persistent a curious kid can be and there have been other reports from parents whose kids have locked them out of their phones for 25-45 years. 

Trust a toddler to reek 47 years of madness! We're definitely hiding our phones from our kids for a while!