This Video Will Crash Any Iphone +picture
A bug in Apple’s iOS enables anyone to blast an iPhone by sending a cord of characters via iMessage or SMS. The bug -- apparent by several users on Reddit -- requires a specific cord of Chinese, Marathi and Arabic characters to be sent.
The iPhone accepting the bulletin will blast and anon reboot. Following the reboot, attempting to reopen the Letters app will aftereffect in the app abolition if it was opened in account view. It can be launched if it was aftermost opened to a chat with the user that beatific the cord of text. But attempting to go to addition chat will account the app to crash, according to MacRumors.
The behind cord of text:
Powerلُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ冗
This is due to a annihilate in how iOS processes the argument in banderole notifications and those displayed in the lockscreen. However, the cord of argument reportedly won’t blast an iPhone if the user has the Letters app accessible while accepting it. And if the argument is not appropriately spaced, the blast will not occur.
This cord of argument will account an iPhone to anon crash. Photo: Luke Villapaz
To fix a abolition messaging app, users can accelerate a bulletin to their own buzz via Siri or by sending a account via the Photos app. Sending a bulletin to the aboriginal sender will additionally fix the letters app from crashing. To anticipate it from accident again, users can attenuate notification banners from the app. According to one Twitter user speaking to Apple support, Apple engineers are already acquainted of the problem. But no timeframe was accustomed for back it will be fixed.
Update 12:39 p.m.: Apple is acquainted of the botheration and is alive on a patch:
“We are acquainted of an iMessage affair acquired by a specific alternation of unicode characters and we will accomplish a fix accessible in a software update," said an Apple representative.
