Apple fans were up in ams over the past few weeks when a number of iPhone 6 users encountered a strange error that bricked their phone completely. As the Guardian reported, the error was caused when unofficial repair shops changed the Touch ID sensor, while attempting to replace faulty home buttons. Unfortunately, that triggered a security alert when those users attempted to update their phone with the latest iOS patch, making them entirely unusable.
Apple has hosted a new support page detailing the error, and the fix for it. A patched version of the recently released iOS 9.2.1 has been released, that iPhone owners can use to unbrick their device. Note, this only applies to someone whose phone was bricked by the Error 53 message; if you update OTA instead of through iTunes, you're likely doing fine.
All you have to do is download the latest version of iTunes, connect your iOS device, select it in iTunes and click the "Update" button. The patch is mean to fix bricked iPhones, as well as prevent the same from happening to phones in the future.
Source: Apple releases iOS patch to fix iPhones bricked by Error 53
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