23.04.2020 22:18 Uhr, Quelle: Macrumors

PSA: New Character Bug in Messages Causing iOS Devices to Crash

There appears to be a new character-linked bug in Messages, Mail, and other apps that can cause the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch to crash when receiving a specific string of characters. Image from Twitter In this particular case, the character string involves the Italian flag emoji along with characters in the Sindhi language, and it appears the system crash happens when an incoming notification is received with the problem-causing characters. Based on information shared on Reddit, the character string began circulating on Telegram, but has also been found on Twitter. These kind of device-crashing character bugs surface every so often and sometimes become widespread, leading to a significant number of people ending up with a bugged iPhone, iPad, or Mac. In 2018, for example, a character string in the Telugu language circulated around the internet, crashing thousands of devices before Apple addressed the problem in an iOS update. There is often no way to prevent these characters from causing crashes

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