Wednesday, 27 May 2015

The iPhone bug that lets anyone crash your phone with a text message

Glitch in Apple’s iOS chokes when certain non-Latin script is sent in a text message, causing the device to crash

A bug in Apple’s iOS means that anyone can crash an iPhone by simplysending it a certain string of characters in a message.

The bug – discovered by several Reddit users – means that when the message is received it instantly crashes the iPhone and causes it to reboot, as long as the recipient is not viewing their message history at the time.

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