iPhone bugs: Text messages, Twitter and Snapchat crashes: SIRI to rescue from death messages
Apple’s text messaging bug crashes iPhones with the sending of a simple text. The bug seems to affect Twitter too, and permanently breaks Snapchat text chat.
Apple’s text management system gets crashed on certain characters from Arabic, Marathi and Chinese and crashes the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or Mac. The distorted message can be sent over Twitter. If the recipient is an iPhone user and his notification is switched on, a message will immediately crash their smartphone.
To make it worst for the iPhone users, Snapchat gets inflicted too. When a text chat is being sent with the offending string, it instantly crashes the iPhone when the user tries to read it. Therefore, it means that the user will be unable to open their chat log with the person who sent the message without crashing their iPhone. The specific message cannot be deleted, but the bug will allow other messages to be sent to and received from different contacts.
Apple came up with a quick fix and suggested users to open up Siri and ask it to go through your unread messages. Subsequently, Siri will eradicate any sort of malicious texts present on the notifications screens. Users have been advised to again use Siri to delete the conversation thread:
- Ask Siri to “read unread messages.”
- Use Siri to reply to the malicious message. After you reply, you’ll be able to open Messages again.
- If the issue continues, tap and hold the malicious message, tap More, and delete the message from the thread.
The process will perform a temporary fix for the current issue. Apple authority have not spoken of any software update that will completely pin-point the susceptibility exploited by the uni-code string.
“Apple is aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update,” Apple authority said in a statement.
However, Apple claims that this is certainly neither a flaw in its security system nor it is a bug of any major type. They assured the users in providing a more optimized solution very soon.
