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THERE’S A NASTY new iPhone bug doing the rounds: It’s a string of characters that, when sent in a message, crashes the recipient’s phone.
We first heard about the issue on 9to5Mac, and it apparently affects only iPhone-to-iPhone communication. After receiving a text with the particular string of characters, Messages will reportedly crash repeatedly. It can also force iPhones to reboot in some circumstances.
effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗
For what it’s worth, we’ve tried to replicate the bug and can’t manage it – suggesting that it doesn’t necessarily affect all iPhones. But comments on social media show that it’s definitely for an issue for many:
On Reddit, one user theorises that it’s caused by a failure to render unicode properly — “[causing] messages to take up a lot more memory than normal, leading to iOS killing the largest process,” and thus crashing.
And as 9to5Mac notes, this isn’t the first time this has happened. In 2013, the tech blog reported on how certain Arabic characters could cause issues in both iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.
If you’ve been affected, Forbes has a suggestion on how to fix the issue and let you reopen Messages: Either “have the person who pranked you send another message,” or “send yourself a message through Siri or your Mac.”
Apple told Business Insider it had no comment at this time.
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No sign of any problem on my iPho
Let the games begin
Queue the “this wouldn’t happen on Android” fan boys.
This wouldn’t happen on an Android os
Highly irresponsible to include the actual text that causes the problem.
It appears to be caused because the ‘banner notification’ shits itself when displaying that particular Unicode text. It’s more-so to do with the banner notification for a text message. I would imagine you would get this problem with Whatsapp also.
Here’s an output of the crash report if anyone is interested, seems to be a segfault:
https://ghostbin.com/paste/zws9m
It may look like an Arabic word but I’ve talked to two friends one Persian and one Lebanese and they both say that it makes no sense, it’s the Persian alphabet with some Arabic letters, basically if you put it into a translator it is translated as lljjhksksjwhw which is basically what it is, I think the second part is what is causing some of the issues.
Probably a hack that once used renders the phone open to attack by disabling passwords when the hacker sends a certain code. Being sent this way does two things 1) gets it past security settings and virus scans, 2) gets spread by everyone trying it to see what happens.
PS.,…… it’s only a thought though :-)
effective.
Power
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冗
Copy and paste it as it is. Send to someone while their phone is locked . Works on iPhone 5s & 6
All *^<nrb well he%%^<?<^
Just change your keyboard to marathi and Arabic like so you know.ےہگکئھطگگگططےطددووौैीूााै
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