iPhone bug causes immediate crash when string of characters is received via text

[endoverend]

A hilarious bug has been discovered in the iOS operating system run by all iPhones. If this specific string of text is sent to a user who uses iMessage, the phone will instantly crash and reboot, and the iMessage app may be rendered useless. The text is:

effective.  Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗

That exact message will crash an iPhone upon being received, and whenever it is viewed on the main screen of iMessage.

Apple has posted a workaround fo this problem as follows:

• Open Siri
• Tell Siri to mark all messages as read
• Reply to the malicious messages

This is hilarious.

 

[DarkFlare69]

I've made a tutorial on how to do this:

 

[Deleted User]

I sent it to a friend over Skype. >B^)
He'll kill me if he finds out that what I sent him is causing his iPhone to crash.

 

[Sheimi]

My brother and I go back and forth on this crash message. We are a bit bored.

 

[Bladexdsl]

android master race

 

[endoverend]

Actually I've figured out that the crash only works if the text is sent from another iPhone, so go figure.

 

[Deleted User]

Actually I've figured out that the crash only works if the text is sent from another iPhone, so go figure.

i send the code from my note 3 to my moms iphone 5c and it worked

 

[nxwing]

Can anybody confirm if this works on the iPad 2 too?

 

[endoverend]

Can anybody confirm if this works on the iPad 2 too?

It works on any device running iOS 8.3.

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

Huh. I was wondering why my friend was complaining their phone was crashing.

 

[DinohScene]

Oh Apple.
Time to push IOS 9? leave a silly bug and push IOS 10? then go full Chrome and Firefox and release a new version number everytime you change 1 line of code?