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iOS bug causes iPhone to crash when you type these four characters


Occasionally, an odd text string bug emerges in iOS that can crash your iPhone with just a few characters. This...

This week, a security researcher on Mastodon found that typing these characters into Spotlight Search or App Library will crash your iPhone: “”:: Researchers further explained that this is not a security issue and there’s “no evidence yet to suggest anyone other than an iOS device owner manually typing the characters could trigger this bug.” Perhaps most notably, the “Effective Power” bug in 2015 caused the Messages app to crash and iPhones to reboot when a particular text was received.

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