Facing iTunes error 53 on iPhone 6 or 6 Plus? Here are 6 ways to fix error 53 from iTunes. iTunes to date remains one of the great media players ever invented. The program is simple and easy to understand. With it, you can download and listen to music on your device seamlessly.

That said, it is not free of errors, and one major problems faced by iTunes users is the "error 53" which can appear while the program is running or during the iPhone restoring / updating process.

 

The message that you see when this error appears is the following:

"The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (53).

As visible in the following thread, the user was trying to update his iPhone 6 Plus to iOS 8 or iOS 9, when the error 53 appeared in iTunes. In a few cases, when the iPhone is being updated and the iTunes error 53 appears, the device may become bricked.

To avoid this from happening, here are 6 things you can do to get rid of this error.

#1: Wipe the registry clean

This is a possible solution to Fix iTunes Error 53 on iPhone 6 or 6S. The registry can be cleaned and this is a pretty useful action to take every time you install or install some programs. It also helps in speeding up your PC. It is a simple endeavor and pretty beneficial. You can do it with Clean Registry on Mac or Clean Registry on Windows. After that, just restart your PC and try to restore your device again.

#2: Wipe clean junk files

There are ample cache and log files accumulated by each operating system after some time. If you don’t periodically clean out this junk, your iTunes software can become extremely slow or display the "Unknown error 53" message, which may be due to an overburdened hard drive or file conflicts. As a result, you need to clean junk files on Mac or clean junk files on Windows. Then you need to relaunch iTunes and try to restore the device (You should now fix the error 53).

#3: Do Windows updates

Microsoft works hard to improve system files that could be resulting in the 53 error. Update your Windows version with the latest service pack and other releases, which can remove system errors and improve performance. You can do this by clicking the Start button, typing “update” in the search box and pressing Enter. After that, choose “Install Updates” from the update box.

#4: Do PC drivers updates

Outdated or damaged device drivers can also be the cause of iTunes error 53. The drivers can stop working altogether for several reasons. Therefore, you need to update the device drivers to fix iTunes error 53 issue.

Mac users can choose iTunes from the iTunes Menu and look for Updates.

Windows users can choose Help from the menu bar and check for Updates.

#5: Reinstall iTunes

On your PC you can reinstall iTunes with easy. Just go to Add or Remove Programs -> Uninstall iTunes. Now download the latest iTunes version and install it again. Restart your PC and try again. This may help you to fix error 53 from iTunes.

#6: Restore your iPhone with the Original Touch ID button

Did you replaced the display or the touch id button on your iPhone? The touch id is directly connected with the motherboard and if you replace the Touch ID button you will get a error 53 when you try to restore your device via iTunes. How to fix error 53 now? Just use the old (original) touch id button and try to restore your device.

Update: Extra tip to fix iTunes error 53 iPhone 6 / 6S

The possible problem for Unknown Error 53 is the incorrect screw placement in the screen replacement process. There are totally four screws that hold the touchscreen connectors and the LCD. If you place the longest screw in a wrong hole, it can damage one of the layers of the mother board. There's no way to fix it. You can visit Apple Retail Store to replace it under warranty.

Other way to fix iTunes error 53 is to change the IC from your old home touch ID button. You need to remove it from the old (original) touch id and put it to the new home button. You need to have some tech skills to do that.

By following these steps, you can fix error 53 iPhone 6 / iPhone 6S and enjoy your device again.

 

According to their claims, the Nikkei corporation has already previously made its intent known to its suppliers, and therefore in accordance with this intent, the LG Display has been progressively augmenting in capacity ever since. It has been revealed quite recently that LG appears to have plans to open up a new factory in Korea, with a net value of (up to) approximately 4.2 billion dollars; however, as far as we know there appears to be no clear indication as to whether this potential new factory would be specifically aimed towards the iPhone, or possibly even Apple in general.

Presently, there exists only one product within all of the Apple range that incorporates the OLED technology in its hardware, and that is the Apple Watch. And, as we know, as of today LG remains the sole provider of displays for this product.

It has been implied by Nikkei that quite possibly Samsung may be joining them, mainly due to the fact the latter company has much more experience and is generally more reliable when it comes to manufacturing OLED displays as mass production, but also because there is some very real concern that LG might very well not be able to meet Apple's demands in terms of production and supply. Already, in the past, Samsung has provided Apple with parts for various different products and models, among there LCDs.

While it has been speculated in recent times that, due to the limited production capabilities of LG, Apple may in fact find themselves in the position of being forced to offer both OLED phones and LCD phones; however, for those familiar with the company's track record (particularly their fondness for wide ranging consistency among their product range and models), this possibility does seem somewhat unlikely, if past experience is any indication. As an example regarding this point, let's take a look a the iPhone 6s and 6s plus models: these are two very similar but slightly different products; they incorporate different screen sizes and different degrees of image resolution. But even having these significant differences, we find that both models do share in principal all their underlying technology and, in fact, do produce very similar results in terms of user experience and application.

As we all know, OLED panels possess the quality of being extremely flexible, and owing to its inherent characteristics as a material it can be said rather confidently that OLED panels do perform in a much superior manner when compared to those made of LCD. This is true both in terms of the devices power performance, as well as regarding the visual quality provided. Even though there is a very real possibility that some parts or elements of the hardware, along with some of its functionality, may indeed deteriorate to some extent with time (this is what we could call "normal tear and wear", as applied to mobile electronics), Apple are indeed committed to tackling these issues and have already announced that they're in talks with both the display suppliers, as well as the producers of their manufacturing equipment. The current goal of these talks is to deal with these potential and I or probable future issues, and try to establish ways to counteract their possible adverse effects. According to Apple themselves, the company and their suppliers are determined to find effective solutions to this problem and implement them strategically during next year, approximately.

We had the chance earlier this year to hear the declarations of Ming-Chi Kuo, who is a KGl Securities analyst. According to Mr. Kuo, the OLED technology that is now being implemented and utilized is very unlikely to appear in new iPhone units, at least until the year 2019, at the very earliest. This statement, while not an official communication on the behalf of the company itself, does indeed give some indication as to the scale and nature of Apple's timeline when it comes to actually incorporating this new technology in their upcoming products and models. And this is by no means due to a lack of interest or commitment on the company's part; in fact, accoring to the very same declarations, it appears that several very significant companies have still ongoing large investments in LCD manufacturing. This includes businesses such as Foxconn, according to Mr.Kuo.

If you're among the numerous people who bought an iPhone 6s Plus in the past three months, you may have found that your iPhone 6s Plus screen keeps flickering while you're converting between different apps, using 3D Touch or attempting to search something with Spotlight.

The explanation for this is that your iPhone 6s Plus is forced to drop frames when it is dealing with graphically intensive computations and has to freeze before it succeeds to pass the bottleneck. According to Apple's design, the iPhone 6s Plus interface is rendered at 1242-x-2208-pixels and then downscaled down to 1080p.

It does so by using hardware that downscales the image that is projected onto your iPhone 6s Plus screen at a system level, integrating it into the inner mechanics of the iPhone 6s Plus.

Theoretically, there should be absolutely no reason the iPhone 6s Plus screen flickers and freezes at times, but the best guess as to why this happens is because of poor software optimization by Apple, despite designing the iPhone 6s Plus to use a hardware based downscaling algorithm.

Thankfully, there is an easy way to fix the iPhone 6s Plus frame drop issues as long as you're willing to make a compromise. By going to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Increase Contrast -> Reduce Transparency, and turning Reduce Transparency on, you'll be able to make your iPhone 6s Plus as buttery smooth as a regular iPhone 6s.

The Reduce Transparency option lightens the graphical workload that your iPhone 6s Plus has to deal with by removing some of the transparent aesthetic features Apple has put into iOS 9. Spotlight, for example, has a grey background with Reduce Transparency turned on instead a murky image of your home screen wallpaper.

As long as that isn't a deal breaker, this fix will at least help you keep your sanity until Apple finally gets around to fixing this issue. You may have to wait until the iPhone 7 however. The iPhone 6 Plus had the same problem.

If you're wondering why Apple even bothers to render the iPhone 6s Plus at a higher resolution, it's to help developers. The original iPhone was based on a 163-ppi screen, while newer retina displays, in iPhones such as the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 6s are exactly twice, at 326-ppi. That means developers only had to scale their assets by a factor of two to keep developing.

The iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus however, are rendered at three times 163-ppi, which comes out to 489-ppi. Unfortunately, the iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus only have a pixel density of 401-ppi.