Here’s the nasty bug that has everyone complaining to Apple:
effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗
Send that to someone with an iPhone it turns their phone off
Copy all above the line and text it to another iPhone and it will shut it off.
I wonder what other things we can control with this, rather than just “power off the device.”
Any ideas?
Edit 1: you don’t need that first line, plus i fixed it
edit 2: a list of things we discovered so far
it only seems to work if your phone is not on safe modeit always works- on a jailbroken phone it shoots you into safe mode…could means that it might be related to a Springboard vulnerability
- it doesn’t work if the person you are sending is looking at your texts, they can be anywhere else on their iPhone
edit 3: something i’ve noticed, apple changes the api with every new ios, right? maybe it has something to do with that?
edit 4: what’s weird is I’m on iOS 8.1.2 and it crashes my phone as well, so this is not only on the latest OS
edit 5: we found out what it is. it is due to how the banner notifications process the Unicode text. The banner briefly attempts to present the incoming text and then “gives up” thus the crash creds to /u/sickestdancer98
edit 6: this also works with WhatsApp (aparently)
edit 7: Idea We could make an app with this notification called “Respring”, make it so it crashes the app so your at your homescreen, and then it sends you a notification with this text and your phone resprings!
How exactly is this a “security vulnerability” ?
“Here’s the nasty bug that has everyone complaining to Apple” yep because I receive random crap letters in my text on a daily basis and it reboots my phone. WTF.
It’s a vulnerability because all the people who have your number can be jackasses and restart your phone.
Is this only applicable to iMessage users? Or to regular text messaging also? (ie: am I okay if my iMessage is turned off?)
I believe it works for Messages as a whole (SMS or iMessage). Also works for WhatsApp
I’m on ipad(retina screen) IOS 8.3! I tried to send the unicode to a friend and my ipad fucked up
Doesn’t do anything to my phone. ios 8.3 on 5S
when i first my phone i turned all banners off and i have received this message and my phone has not restarted yet so maybe you can try it
when i first got my phone i turned all banners off and i have received this message and my phone has not restarted yet so maybe you can try it
It locked me out of texring, couldn’t even open my sms icon it just flickerd and wouldn’t open. I have resolved this issue now thank god as i send and receive texts 12 hrs a day.
ر ॣ ॣ works, too. Found it out myself.
Now I can’t open iMessage anymore, I’ve send it to myself on my iPad with iOS 8.3 PLZ HELP
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/55893/20150527/one-text-message-crash-iphone-heres-fix.htm
how can we undo this if i send this to some one and his phone restarts this happens only once or it will continue?