YES! IT’S NOT A JOKE! This single line of text message which is sent quite normally through messaging app, which is by default available in every phone, is mighty enough to crash your iPhone.
On Tuesday, this bug transpired on Reddit and it has the ability of crashing or rebooting the person’s mobile phone who receives this message. It can also stop the recipient from getting in the Messages application completely. This ‘message’ which is under consideration includes Chinese, Marathi, Arabic and English characters and has lead Redditors for speculating troubles occurring when iOS processes Unicode text to be shown.
Below is mentioned the ‘in doubt message’ but make sure not to send it to any individual until you have the guts to endure the end result because it will lead to dangerous outcome:-
effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗
On Wednesday, this bug could be effectively replicated by Huffington Post which resulted in the successful crash of iPhone 6 by sending the same message through iPhone 5s. There was latest software of Apple, i.e., iOS 8.3, running on both the phones. It also led to forceful rebooting of an Apple Watch. However, this could not be made certain as to how the problem occurred as well as its being secure to be tested on a friend’s phone.
Here’s a video representing the same:
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As per iClarified, this error has an effect on Jailbroken users too but their mobiles forcedly turned into Safe Mode rather than crashing & rebooting sequence which was noticed in other phones.
Besides, according to several users, they were fully locked out of the messaging app. As a solution to this problem, Cult of Mac gives the suggestion of some workarounds which incorporate reply to original message via Siri as well as turn off notifications of the Message app.
If we refer to a spokesman from Apple who recognized the hitch and stated that the organization is intended for fixing it, as per the email received by Huffington Post:
“We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update.”
What a terrible message! Isn’t it? Did you ever imagine that such an expensive phone can be crashed by just a single line of text message which is not clear or easy to read even? Does it mean that safety and security of your iPhone is not into your hands but in others? What can be worse than it! Share your views regarding the issue in the comments section below!!